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Analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report.

The President, in his State of the Union speech, called on the Senate to quickly put together a jobs bill. In this memo, EPI economist Josh Bivens explains why a well-designed temporary job creation tax credit could be a useful part of an overall jobs bill and which version of the jobs tax credit now being considered by the Senate will have the largest impact on job creation.

Additional context on the country's high unemployment rate. (Updated January 2010.)

This new Issue Brief shows that health care costs have been a trivial driver of overall wage trends.

The wide gaps in employment and unemployment rates between whites and American Indians have only widened in the past two years.

The lack of good jobs that pay decent wages and provide health care and retirement benefits is a serious problem for all Americans and an especially dire problem for America's people of color. Algernon Austin, director of EPI's program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy, examines the rate of employment in so-called "good jobs" for different demographic groups.

Ratio of job seekers to job openings narrows slightly in September.

On October 8, EPI President Lawrence Mishel testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on Income Security and Family Support, warning that unemployment would continue to rise, at least through the middle of 2010. "We need to help families weather this storm and do what we can to generate jobs and a robust recovery," he said.

EPI analyzes the latest findings on income, poverty, and health insurance in its Income/Poverty Picture.

In September, EPI president Lawrence Mishel spoke at Tides' Momentum 2009 conference. Watch his presentation and view his slideshow here.

The August employment report shows that the labor market is continuing to deteriorate, but thanks to the Recovery Act, at a much slower rate than earlier in the year.

Many workers who have not lost their jobs during the recession have lost wages. Wage growth slowed dramatically in recent months and many employers are cutting hours, threatening to further limit consumer consumption and delay an economic recovery.

The latest statistics on unemployment, underemployment, worker productivity, health care coverage, and job and retirement security.