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…

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…

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…

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…

The New York Times is reporting that policy makers are considering “something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s” — a plan to offer tax incentives to companies that create jobs.

To me, the prospect of tax credits to…

One-upping the U.S. Misery Index, The Huffington Post regularly offers a formula that elevates the woe (whoa?) factor to a new high. Or low, as the case may be.

The latest U.S. Misery Index, a calculus that has added inflation to the unemployment…

Since the beginning of the year, manager Jim Varagona and employees of the InkStop franchise in Maplewood begged the indulgence of customers frustrated by the store’s dwindling inventory of ink cartridges, toner, small electronics and office supplies.

“You’d be stupid not to…

Friday’s announcement that the national unemployment rate now stands at 9.8 percent (17 percent if the underemployed and displaced workers who have given up a job search are added to the equation) bears out forecasts of a recovery that will see…