Labor Department

More absurdity from Washington on the state of the nation's unemployed. The U.S. Labor Department says hiring virtually collapsed last month with the addition of only 38 thousand new jobs, the fewest since September 2010.  Somehow though the unemployment rate continues to tumble with the May figure down to 4.7 pe...

The Labor Department says employers added 292-thousand jobs in December as the unemployment rate held steady at five percent.

The U.S. economy created 211-thousand new jobs in October.