The federal government is about to add more fine print to the ubiquitous Employment Equal Opportunity Commission posters found in every office, factory, restaurant and shop in the country.

The posters will advise of a new law — effective Nov. 21 — barring employers…

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…

As anyone who follows the comments on blogs and stories posted on stltoday.com will attest, there are a lot of angry people out there. But this caught St. Louis area executive  recruiter Bill Mueller by surprise.

The most common complaint aimed at people…

Several readers have asked if there is a connection between last week’s U.S. Senate enactment of a bill that will extend unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and the February  decision by the Missouri General Assembly to turn down federal stimulus jobs funds.

The…

With the federal stimulus package failing to produce hoped for gains and the national unemployment rate shooting past 10 percent, President Obama announced Thursday he will convene a White House summit next month to discuss the nation’s worsening job crisis.

“We are open…

Various federal and state agencies can throw out all the numbers and percentages they like — a 10.2 percent national and local unemployment rate, 15.1 million people out of work across the country, 130,000 of them in the St. Louis…

A column published Friday detailed some of the efforts undertaken over the past ten years by the St. Louis chapter of Jobs with Justice, a national movement that advocates for fair wages and other work-related issues.

The column noted that Lara Granich,…

Although my colleague David Nicklaus posted an item on Mound City Money after we heard Saint Louis University economist Jack Strauss expound on the relationship between small business and hiring at a forum last week, an op-ed piece in Tuesday’s New York Times — Help Small Businesses…

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…