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Analysis of today's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) release

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.)

The nation’s 10% unemployment rate does not capture the severity of the crisis for minority workers in many regions of the country. This Issue brief provides a breakdown of the unemployment projections into 2010 for various demographic groups in every state.

The jobs data for December show that unemployed workers continue to have a very hard time finding work: layoffs are moderating significantly, but hiring is not yet picking up. Read a full analysis in EPI's Jobs Picture

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

There were 13.2 million more unemployed workers than job openings in October, or 6.3 job seekers per available job.

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

See video and slideshows from this event featuring Douglas H. Palmer, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey; Mark Zandi, Moody's Economy.com; Iris Lav, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Ethan Pollack and Douglas Hall, EPI.

At this EPI forum, presenters chronicled the decline in the quality of American jobs and identified policy reforms needed to put America back on a path to creating good jobs.

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.

In response to the unemployment crisis, EPI has proposed a tax credit that could create millions of jobs over the next two years, at a relatively low cost.