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 U.S. Department of Labor announced this week that it has awarded separate $300,000 grants to the St. Patrick Center and the City of St. Louis to provide job training and employment opportunities to homeless veterans.

Gregory Vogelweid of St. Patrick said the agency’s grant…

Not to suggest anything unseemly, but the unemployed — perhaps more than anyone — crave human contact.

It’s 2009. Translation: Without an appointment with a human resources officer a job applicant will never make it past the post-Sept. 11 security in…

Tony Ellerson Sr.,  57-years-old and out of work since November, asks, “What are we supposed to do if we’re back in the job search mode after a long, long time?”

Hmmm….do long-time employees suddenly thrust into the job market share similar…