The STLtoday.com graphic design team of Brian Williamson and Erica Smith have developed an interactive map tracking employment trends in the St. Louis region.

Drawn from state, local and federal jobs data, the map provides snapshot of area employment. It reflects…

Missouri’s jobless numbers dropped two tenths of a point in October, a dip officials say supports a forecast that cited the state as one 11 across the nation demonstrating positive signs of emerging from the recession.

At 9.3 percent, Missouri’s seasonally adjusted…

The official count on area unemployment, of course, is delivered monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with a nudge from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The raw numbers crunched by the BLS (based on state and regional jobless data) is…

The week that was on the jobs scene…

Monday: IHS Global Insight’s U.S. Regional Insight Group foresees a 9.90 percent average unemployment rate in the St. Louis region for the fourth quarter. IHS Global’s analysts also predict “metro areas will be dealing with the…

Unemployment in the St. Louis region topped 10 percent in September — the first time in more than 26 years joblessness in the area has reached into double figures.

The employment rate, 10.2 percent, was adjusted by the Federal Reserve Bank of…

By now, regular readers of this blog should have a pretty good grasp of just how tough it is to find a job if you’re residing in and around St. Louis.

As bad as it is — and with 142,000 people…

Missouri’s and the St. Louis metro area’s monthly employment figures are in with the Department of Economic Development reporting that, led by hiring in private education and local government, the St. Louis area picked up 2,200 jobs in September.

Overall, the state shed 3,000 non-farm…

Unemployment in the St. Louis region increased to 9.4 percent in August, a one-tenth of a point increase over the numbers the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis adjusted to account for seasonal jobs in July.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in…

The multi-state Made in America Jobs Tour will be in St. Louis Tuesday to push Missouri businesses and workers toward an economy driven by clean energy jobs.

The Center for American Progress estimates Missouri has the potential to add as many as 35,000 post-recession…

From the print edition of STLJobWatch, published Friday, Aug. 21 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Sometimes, a job drops in your lap. Sometimes, you have to create your own mojo.

It’s worked both ways for Amanda Hill.

All of 26, she’s already…