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2008

JUNE 18 | Reopened AF tanker discussions should weigh jobs impact

2006

JULY 12 | Union Rights for 8 Million at Stake (Issue Brief)

JULY 10 | Chicago Can Have Better Wages AND Low Prices (Viewpoint)

2005

AUGUST 5 | EPI NewsFlash: Overall job market expands
Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute of today’s BLS jobs report shows solid employment gains reaching most industries, as employers appear to be shedding their cautious ways and hiring to meet expanded demand. Today’s Jobs Picture, by EPI economist Jared Bernstein, examines these favorable trends, with the exception of manufacturing, where job losses continue to accumulate. In today’s JobWatch, EPI economist Sylvia Allegretto illustrates the lingering effects on employment in IT-producing industries after the bubble burst in mid-2000. Some IT-related occupations, such as those in computer-related fields, have shown recent signs of improvement, but IT employment is growing slower than overall payrolls.

JUNE 29 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Quality Improving
After three and a half hears in which lower-paying industries grew faster than higher-paying ones, the quality of U.S. job growth by industry once again nosed into positive territory during the first quarter of 2005. In today’s economic snapshot, EPI economist Elise Gould tracks the pay diferential between expanding and contracting industries since 1991.

JUNE 8 | EPI NewsFlash: CAFTA under NAFTA cloud
Supporters of CAFTA argue that it will benefit the agricultural sector, but just how likely are those benefits to materialize? In today’s economic snapshot, EPI trade economist Robert Scott examines similar predictions that were made before the passage of NAFTA, and shows why the claims now being made about CAFTA should be taken with a grain of salt.

JUNE 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Where the Jobs Are
It took an unprecedented 50 months, but jobs in the private sector have finally regained their pre-recession levels. But not all industrial sectors are making a comeback. In today’s JobWatch, Economic Policy Institute economist Sylvia Allegretto charts which sectors are hot and which are not. Get the full analysis on private sector job growth on the JobWatch.org Web site.

2004

JULY 14 | EPI NewsFlash: Falling Corporate Tax Revenues Push Deficits Higher
Proceeds from corporate tax income are steadily eroding, and the federal budget is paying the steep price in higher deficits. Read the EPI Snapshot for a comparison of the trend in corporate income tax revenue to profits and GDP.

JUNE 2 | EPI NewsFlash: IT Employment Slack Despite Software Demand
Spending on information-technology (IT) software has exceeded its 2000 peak, but IT employment lags well below its peak level, according to this week’s Economic Snapshot by EPI economist Josh Bivens. He describes how the offshoring of software jobs overseas has possibly played a part in the IT labor market slack.

MAY 12 | EPI NewsFlash: Growing Industries Provide Less Health Coverage
Using health insurance coverage as the yardstick, the quality of U.S. jobs in industries that are expanding is lower than in those that are contracting, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Read the Economic Snapshot .

APRIL 29 | EPI NewsFlash: New Book Links FCC Policies to Job Loss in Telecom Industry
Outdated rules in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 strangle the established local wired phone companies and have contributed to the loss of 380,000 jobs across the entire economy. Stephen Pociask lays out the facts in A Failure to Communicate: Reforming Public Policy in the Telecommunications Industry, to be released Tuesday, May 4, 2004. READ the full press release.

APRIL 8 | EPI NewsFlash: Good Policy Could Halt Manufacturing Job Losses
See Press Release.

MARCH 29 | EPI NewsFlash: U.S. rapidly losing high-tech edge to China
A Snapshot by senior economist Robert Scott shows that China is sharply ramping up its high-tech exports while the U.S. trade balance in such goods has declined from a $32.3 billion surplus in 1997 to a $27.4 billion deficit in 2003.

MARCH 24 | EPI NewsFlash: High Paying Software Jobs Moving to India
Economists Lee Price and Josh Bivens find evidence that points to a significant movement of U.S. software jobs to India. U.S. jobs in software-producing industries declined by 128,000 between 2000 and 2004, while professional jobs in India’s software export sector rose by 150,000 from 1999 to 2003. For more details read the Snapshot .

MARCH 16 | EPI NewsFlash: Low Taxes Don’t Add Up to State Economic Development
In the scramble to lure businesses and jobs to their state, policymakers assume that low taxes and business tax incentives make the best bait. A new study offers strong evidence that such policies are neither the best nor the most cost-effective strategies for attracting businesses and jobs. To read about “Rethinking Growth Strategies: How State and Local Taxes and Services Affect Economic Development” by economist Robert G. Lynch, click here.

MARCH 10 | EPI NewsFlash: Trade Deficits Fuel Manufacturing’s Decline
The U.S manufacturing industry ended 2003 with fewer workers than at any time since 1958. Economist Josh Bivens examines the real culprit behind falling production: rising trade deficits in manufactured goods. Snapshot .

MARCH 3 | EPI News Flash: Hi-Tech Spikes, But Other Manufacturing Sectors Lag
Increased investment has given a boom to high-tech industries, with industrial production and capacity rising over the past year. But other manufacturing industries are stagnating, with March becoming the 19th straight month of year-on-year decline in industrial capacity. In this EPI Snapshot, economist Josh Bivens shows that most manufacturing industries are still left behind and illustrates why a broader investment economic recovery is needed. Snapshot

2003

SEPTEMBER 12 | Policy Changes Needed To Revive Manufacturing

AUGUST 6 | End of the Line For Amtrak?

JUNE 11 | EPI NewsFlash: Manufacturing Sector in Crisis

JUNE 4 | Study Shows Amtrak Crucial to Economy, Environment & Homeland Security

JUNE 4 | News Roundtable:The Future and Impact of Amtrack
Listen to roundtable (EPI Audio Archive)

JUNE 4 | Study Shows Amtrak Crucial to Economy, Environment & Homeland Security

JUNE 4 | News Roundtable:The Future and Impact of Amtrack

JANUARY 22 | EPI SNAPSHOT: The White-Collar Blues

2002

AUGUST 2 | Proposed merger raises concerns

Jobs

2008

JULY 3 | Job market declines, paychecks wither

JUNE 24 | Job quality growing concern in euro countries

JUNE 18 | Reopened AF tanker discussions should weigh jobs impact

2007

MARCH 28 | Immigration Reform, Getting it Right, An Agenda for Shared Prosperity Forum ( news release [PDF])

MARCH 21 | Immigration Reform, Getting It Right (Conference Call)

MARCH 15 | Getting Immigration Reform Right Briefing Paper released ( News release [PDF])

MARCH 7 | Inflation and Labor Costs

FEBRUARY 22 | Agenda for Shared Prosperity holds its second event on Capitol Hill ( News release [PDF])

FEBRUARY 21 | Slow growth in manufacturing is culprit in job loss

2006

AUGUST 10 | Immigration Bill Would Protect U.S. Workers (Policy Memo)

AUGUST 9 | Poverty Rates and Work for Single Mothers (Snapshot)

AUGUST 4 | Unemployment Rate Rises as Job Growth Slows (Jobs Picture)

JULY 12 | Union Rights for 8 Million at Stake (Issue Brief)

JULY 7 | Job Growth Slows Again, Indicating Trend (Jobs Picture)

JULY 7 | Black-White Income Gap Re-Widens (Snapshot)

JUNE 12 | 5 Economic Trouble Spots (Policy Memo)

JUNE 2 | Job Growth Disappoints — Again (Jobs Picture)

MAY 24 | College Grads Find Weak Labor Market (Snapshot)

MAY 15 | The Immigration Piece Bush May Miss (Viewpoint)

MAY 5 | Wage Growth is Bright Spot in Jobs Report (Jobs Picture)

MAY 4 | White House “Cherry-Picking” Economic Data (Snapshot)

APRIL 7 | Job Growth at Five (Jobs Picture)

APRIL 5 | ‘Insourcing’ Not Creating Jobs in U.S. Economy (Snapshot)

MARCH 14 | Does the Trade Deficit Cost Manufacturing Jobs? (Briefing Paper)

MARCH 10 | Good News for Jobs and Wages (Jobs Picture)

FEBRUARY 22 | A Shortage of Skilled Workers? Maybe Not… (Snapshot)

FEBRUARY 15 | The Rise of Immigrant Worker Centers (Book)

FEBRUARY 3 | Job Market Shows Clear Improvement (Jobs Picture)

JANUARY 27 | State of the Economy (Issue Brief and Snapshot)

JANUARY 6 | 2005 Job Growth Mediocre (Jobs Picture)

2005

DECEMBER 14 | Worker Centers for Immigrants Changing Workplace, Debate (Briefing Paper)

DECEMBER 2 | Job Growth Can’t Match Past Recoveries (Jobs Picture)

NOVEMBER 30 | Trade Deficits Batter Manufacturing Jobs (Snapshot)

NOVEMBER 4 | Katrina Evacuees Hit Hard by Unemployment (Jobs Picture)

OCTOBER 12 | Study finds worker skills gap is unsubstantiated

OCTOBER 7 | Assessing Katrina’s Impact on Jobs (Jobs Picture)

SEPTEMBER 2 | What Ails Wages? (Briefing Paper)

SEPTEMBER 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Moderate job growth, but unemployment rate down (Jobs Picture)

AUGUST 10 | EPI NewsFlash: China likely to unravel CAFTA textile trade
Passage of the CAFTA trade deal was predicated on promises that it would be good for textile and apparel employment in the United States and Central America. But in today’s Snapshot, Economic Policy Institute researchers Robert Scott and David Ratner show that the promise of more textile jobs is a pipe dream, given the enormous surge in China’s textile exports to the U.S.

AUGUST 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Defense Jobs Take Up Labor Market Slack
The economy has roughly a million more jobs now than four years ago, despite the job losses in teh private sector over the same period. Government spending has saved the day by creating more than 2 million jobs over that time period. In today’s Snapshot, EPI research director Lee Price estimates that the private sector has 1.2 million fewer non-defense-related jobs than four years ago. He explains that the 2.1 million jobs created by government spending in the last four years has proved invaluable in the labor market progress that has occurred. Perhaps more tellingly, the report demonstrates the profound weakness of private sector job creation for most of the last four years and the capacity of government spending to offset some of that weakness.

AUGUST 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Serious Flaws Found in Offshoring Reports
For the past two years, public concern has grown over a new word in the American lexicon: offshoring. In this climate, three notable research reports have weighed in with a more reassuring story that finds offshoring to be, on balance, a net benefit for the nation. However an analysis of those research findings, Truth and Consequences of Offshoring, published today by the Economic Policy Institute, reports serious flaws in those reassuring stories.

JULY 27 | Single mothers face steeper job market climb
The employment rates of both married parents and single mothers fell in the recession and jobless recovery. But while the married parents’ rate has begun to recover over the past year, the rate for single mothers remains distressingly low – signaling an uphill battle in the labor market for tehse economically vulnerable families. In today’s Snapshot, EPI senior economist Jared Bernstein shows the steep decline in job opportunities for single mothers, especially compared to their married counterparts. The Snapshot looks at the share of employment for both types of working parents at the first quarter of every year from 2000-2005 to show how the employment rate for single mothers remains depressed.

JULY 20 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Poor Compared to Previous Cycles
Although there were more payroll jobs in June of this year than in June of last year, the overall growth rate for jobs in this recovery lags behind the previous five post-World War II recoveries of this length. Economic Policy Institute researchers Lee Price and Sujan Vasavada illustrate this comparison in today’s Snapshot.

JULY 8 | EPI NewsFlash: Jobs grow, but full-time work lags
Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute of today’s BLS jobs report looks at two areas in the labor market: analysis of this month’s jobs report in Jobs Picture, and the growth of full-time vs. part-time employment at JobWatch.org.

JUNE 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Well Below Expectations
After April’s strong showing, May’s disappointing job growth suggests that a convincingly strong labor market recovery has yet to take hold. In today’s Jobs Picture, Economic Policy Institute senior economist Jared Bernstein tracks the stop-and-go nature of monthly job growth to give insightful analysis of the trends and patterns in this atypical labor market.

JUNE 1 | EPIdeas: Fresh Perspectives on the Economy
Book an Economic Policy Institute Expert for Your Talk Show. EPI’s economists and policy experts have vast media experience and are ready to explain how economic trends affect working people and their families. For interviews or more information, please contact EPI’s communications department at (202) 775-8810 or news@epinet.org.

MAY 12 | Telecommunications Policy Erodes Job Quality
The telecommunications regulations that were meant to promote competition and progress have, over time, become their greatest barrier. These unintended consequences are documented in Racing to the Bottom: How Antiquated Public Policy Is Destroying the Best Jobs in Telecommunications, a new book released today by the Economic Policy Institute.

MAY 6 | EPI NewsFlash: Job growth beats expectations
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a surprisingly upbeat report with 274,000 new payroll jobs added in April. For a full analysis of jobs, unemployment, and wages from today’s BLS report, see EPI economist Jared Bernstein’s Job Picture.

MAY 6 | EPI NewsFlash: Young college grads face weak labor market
Even with today’s report of the creation of 274,000 new payroll jobs in April, young college graduates are preparing to jump into a much weaker job market than in 2000. Economic Policy Institute economist Elise Gould analyzes today’s job market from the viewpoint of a young college graduate on the JobWatch.org website.

MAY 3 | EPI Alert: Resources for Mother’s Day Reporting
As you write your stories themed to Mother’s Day, it’s important to remember that as of 2003 (the 2004 data are not yet out) 71.1 percent of mothers of children 18 and under were in the workforce. Here is a quick list of relevant reports and analyses that have been posted to our website since last Mother’s Day.

APRIL 6 | EPI NewsFlash: African-Americans Lose Traction In Labor Market
In this Snapshot, senior economist Jared Bernstein shows that African-American workers still struggle in the job market even though the jobless recovery is solidly behind us. He compares current conditions and those of the early 1990s recovery to gauge the workers’ fortunes.

APRIL 1 | EPI NewsFlash: Jobs Up, But Only Half as Much as Expected
Economic Policy Institute senior economist Jared Bernstein measures the strength of the economic recovery as indicated by job growth, unemployment, and wages. In today’s Jobs Picture, Bernstein points out that while the recession started exactly four years ago last month, private-sector payrolls remain 389,000 below their pre-recession level, an historically unprecedented example of weak employment growth.

FEBRUARY 4 | EPI NewsFlash: Longest stretch to regain lost jobs
In the State of the Union Address this week, the president boasted that 2.3 million new jobs were created in 2004. But todays employment data show that growth remains well behind the usual pace. In todays Jobs Picture, Economic Policy Institute senior economist Jared Bernstein compares job growth rates in previous recoveries and finds that, on average, it has taken 21 months to surpass the prior employment peak after a recession. In this case it took 46 months, making this the longest slump of this type on record.

JANUARY 25 | EPI NewsFlash: Bush Tax Cuts Fail States
With todays release of data on state-level jobs created last month, it is now possible to assess the full impact of the Bush Administrations Jobs and Growth tax cut on states. The plan failed in 48 states and the District of Columbia. The administration fell 3.1 million jobs short of the 5.5 million jobs they projected would be generated nationally over the last 18 months due to the tax cut. JobWatch has monitored that projection against the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly national and state-level job reports to clearly measure the effectiveness of the tax cut.

JANUARY 12 | EPI NewsFlash: Trade Deficit Hurts Labor Market in All States
New trade data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show that the overall U.S. trade deficit continued to climb, hitting another all-time high of $60.3 billion. China accounts for nearly one-quarter of the total U.S. trade deficit, and cost the United States 1.5 million jobs since 1989 that it would have had if trade between the two nations had remained better balanced. That deep trade deficit with China is the focus of a new release today by the Economic Policy Institute which charts, state-by-state and industry-by-industry, its impact on the labor market in every state and the District of Columbia.

JANUARY 7 | EPI NewsFlash: Jobs Growth-Year in Review
December saw 157,000 new payroll jobs, closing out the year with job growth in every month for the first time since 1999. Economic Policy Institutes Jared Bernstein puts the years job growth in historical perspective in todays Jobs Picture.

JANUARY 7 | EPI NewsFlash: 3.1 Million Jobs Short of Prediction
With todays release of the 157,000 payroll jobs created last month, it is now possible to assess that the Bush administrations jobs and growth tax cut fell 3.1 million jobs short of the 5.1 million jobs the administration projected would be generated over the last 18 months. Visit JobWatch for EPIs full and final analysis.

JANUARY 6 | EPI Advisory: Grading the Tax Cut
Tomorrow morning the Economic Policy Institutes JobWatch will tally the final score on how the jobs and growth tax cut measured up to the administrations own projections.

2004

DECEMBER 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Fewer November Jobs Than Expected
November’s gain of 112,000 payroll jobs proved to be the lowest monthly jobs gain since July. Coupled with the fact that average hours per week declined slightly and wage growth was flat, EPI’s JOBS PICTURE shows how last month’s growth is insufficient to erase the jobs deficit and existing labor slack.

DECEMBER 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Lower Than Expected
November’s payroll job growth of 112,000 fell below the 150,000 needed to keep up with growth in the working age population. The latest wage gain — just $0.01 — also fell far short of recent increases in inflation. JobWatch explores how weak the job market is looking.

NOVEMBER 5 | EPI NewsFlash: Optimism & Caution as Jobs Rise
The nations payrolls expanded sharply in October, up 337,000, according to todays report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, making this the strongest month for job growth since last March. Economic Policy Institutes economist Jared Bernstein cautions that one month does not a new trend make in todays Jobs Picture.

OCTOBER 27 | EPI NewsFlash: Female Employment Rates Decrease, Reversing Trend
Economic Policy Institute economist Sylvia Allegretto finds employment rates (the ratio of employment to population) for females decreased by 1.7 percentage-points since the last business cycle peak in March 2001. At this point in every past cycle since 1948, female employment rates have gone up. Allegretto illustrates this substantial decrease and reversal of historic upward trends with two graphs in todays economic Snapshot.

OCTOBER 25 | EPI NewsFlash: Two Jobs Surveys, Same Sad Story
Countering the recent arguments that the household survey provides a markedly prettier picture than the payroll survey, the Economic Policy Institute has updated the May 2004 analysis of the Cleveland Federal Reserve study, Employment Surveys Are Telling the Same (Sad) Story. In todays Snapshot, EPI research director Lee Price finds that with the most recent data, the story illustrated by the two surveys, one payroll and the other household, remains sad.

OCTOBER 8 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Weak by Any Standard, Conf Call Today
Todays announcement of the creation of 96,000 jobs in September falls far short of any reasonable benchmark for evaluating employment growth, according to the Economic Policy Institute. To judge economic performance such as jobs, inflation or GDP, we must establish appropriate yardsticks and benchmarks. Check EPIs JobWatch.org web site.

OCTOBER 8 | EPI Report Reveals Weakening Growth
Analysis of todays jobs report by economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute confirms that although the jobless recovery is over, we have yet to reach a level of employment growth that will absorb the slack remaining in the job market. In fact, Septembers payroll gains of 96,000 appear to be part of a new, diminished rate of job growth that began a few months ago and stands in contrast to the stronger growth rate earlier in the year. See EPIs Jobs Picture for the full analysis of todays jobs report.

SEPTEMBER 17 | EPI NewsFlash: Too-Slow Job Growth Haunts States
Recent job growth is not enough to raise most state job levels to where they were when the recession started in March 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institutes analysis of todays state-level BLS data. Find more on state jobs at http://www.JobWatch.org .

SEPTEMBER 3 | EPI NewsFlash: Jobs Growth Remains Sluggish
JobWatch.org reports modest job growth in August with the creation of 144,000 jobs, following the weak growth reported for July (73,000 jobs) and June (96,000).

AUGUST 26 | EPIdeas
This Labor Day weekend, the Economic Policy Institute will release its authoritative book on today’s economy and its impact on working Americans and their families. The State of Working America offers an in-depth look at who’s winning, who’s losing, and where the trends are pointing in an economic cycle that has been unusually hard on working people and their wages. See EPIdeas for Labor Day topics.

AUGUST 20 | EPI NewsFlash: States Reflect Job Slowdown
Julys meager job growth nationally is reflected in todays release of state-level jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysis from the Economic Policy Institute shows 22 states lost jobs in July, twice as many states as in June. A full analysis is available at JobWatch.org.

AUGUST 5 | EPI NewsFlash: Analysis of Jobs Report Conf Call Friday, Noon
ADVISORY: Media Conference Call, Friday, August 6, At NOON (EST)
ECONOMISTS TO ANALYZE JOBS REPORT, Focus on Displaced Tenured Workers
Experts from the Economic Policy Institute will analyze tomorrows job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in light of last weeks Worker Displacement Survey which said that 2001 2003 held the highest rate of worker displacement on record. CLICK HERE to learn how to join the call.

JULY 30 | EPI NewsFlash: GDP Slows, Past Growth Revised Down
Todays GDP growth rate of 3 percent does not produce enough fuel to create new jobs. In addition, Economic Policy Institute analysis shows that downward revisions to previous GDP growth data confirm that the economic recovery is slightly weaker than originally reported.

JULY 22 | EPI NewsFlash: Jobs Forecast Mixed
The latest BLS occupational job projections offer some good and some not-so-good news, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. In todays Snapshot, economist Lawrence Mishel illustrates how changes in the occupational composition of jobs in the next decade will generate only slight modifications in demand for workers at different education levels. This Snapshot is a preview of the forthcoming book The State of Working America 2004/2005 a comprehensive overview of the U.S. labor market and living standards to be released around Labor Day.

JULY 20 | EPI NewsFlash: Too-Slow Job Growth Haunts States
Recent job growth is not enough to raise most state job levels to where they were when the recession started in March 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institutes analysis of todays state-level BLS data. Find more on state jobs online at JobWatch.

JULY 7 | EPI NewsFlash: Families Now Spend More Time at Work
To refute the notion that Americans are working more hours per year, some observers note that the average weekly work hours have risen only slightly. But Economic Policy Institute senior economist Jared Bernstein shows how a more accurate measure which reflects that more family members are participating in the job market reveals that average family work hours are, in fact, up 11 percent since 1975.
In this week’s EPI Snapshot, Bernstein describes why the trend in average weekly hours doesn’t reveal the extent of hours families devote to work. By looking at the average hours worked by all family members combined, Bernstein finds that families work hours have increased substantially, a trend that can erode the quality of family life, even as incomes rise.

JULY 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Disappoints
The Economic Policy Institute reports far slower job growth in June than expected. The unemployment rate remained stuck at 5.6 percent, as more workers flooded the job market competing for the new jobs.

JULY 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Unemployment Unchanged, Under-employment up
The Economic Policy Institutes JobWatch reports that although the economy has created over a million new jobs in the last four months, it still has not delivered the punch needed to lower the unemployment rate

JULY 1 | EPI NewsAlert: Analysis of Tomorrows Job Numbers
Economists at the Economic Policy Institute will offer analysis of employment data at http://www.jobwatch.org. Tomorrows release of the June jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides an opportunity to assess trends in unemployment and various types of underemployment (discouraged workers and involuntary part-time workers) since the start of the recession (March 2001) and the official beginning of the recovery (November 2001).

JUNE 4 | EPI NewsFlash: Healthy Job Growth, Unemployment Rate Unchanged
For the third month in a row, the jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a strong gain. See details on the Economic Policy Institutes JobWatch Web site.

JUNE 4 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Market Hits “Sweet Spot”
The Economic Policy Institutes analysis of todays jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 248,000 new jobs were added last month. See the Jobs Picture for details.

MAY 6 | EPI Advisory: Economists to Analyze Jobs Report
Media Conference Call Friday, May 7, At NOON (EST). Read the advisory.

APRIL 23 | EPI NewsFlash: Halfway Mark for Jobs & Growth Tax Cut
The Presidents Council of Economic Advisors predicted 5.5 million more jobs would be created by the “Jobs and Growth” tax cut by the end of 2004. It is now at halfway through that 18 month period, but the April 23rd release of state-level job growth data shows that all states are still waiting for their share of jobs.The nation as a whole and 35 states still have fewer jobs than when this recession started. For more data on unemployment and job growth by state, click on http://www.JobWatch.org.

APRIL 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Employment rose sharply, labor market weakness continued in March
Despite a strong March showing of 308,000 added payroll jobs, signs persist of continuing slack in the job market. Notably, unemployment rose slightly, long-term unemployment reached its highest level since 1983 (when overall unemployment was much higher than today), and underemployment rose. For more details see the Jobs Picture.

APR 2 | EPI NewsFlash: Unemployment Rises in Midst of Job Growth
The jobs paradox continues with the March 2004 jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting a whopping 308,000 new jobs, at the same time as the unemployment rose from 5.6 to 5.7 percent. Check http://www.JobWatch.org for more on the jobs report.

APRIL 1 | EPI Media Advisory: Media Conference Call Friday, April 2nd, At NOON (EST)

MARCH 31 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Growth Lags in 49 States
The release of state-level job growth data by the BLS shows 49 states failed to meet the Bush administration’s projections for job creation. For today’s data on unemployment and job growth by state click on click http://www.jobwatch.org after 1:00 pm EST today.

MARCH 15 | EPI NewsFlash: Job Gap Now Exceeds 7 Million
Job creation fell 7.1 million jobs behind the growth needed to keep pace with the expanding working-age population between March 2001 and February 2004. See details and color graphic in this Snapshot .

MARCH 10 | EPI NewsFlash: No High Achieving States in the State Jobs Report
President Bush’s administration’s Jobs and Growth tax cut plan have not been achieved as of January 2004. Nationally the shortfall was almost 2 million jobs since July 2003, when the tax cut went into effect. For the latest data on unemployment and job growth by state click on http://www.JobWatch.org. Maps and tables show comparisons of job creation and loss between states.

MARCH 4 | EPI NewsFlash: Today’s Jobs Picture Weak
Unemployment remained at 5.6 percent in February, but large numbers of people dropped out of the labor force, presumably due to the lack of available jobs. The 65.9 percent labor participation rate was the lowest since September 1988. For an analysis by senior economist Jared Bernstein, click here: Jobs Picture.

FEBRUARY 25 | EPI NewsFlash: Household Survey Measure of Job Growth Disappoints
Economist Elise Gould illustrates how the household survey, which includes the self-employed, shows a staggeringly slow job recovery from the recession in 2001. Click here for details and a color graph in this economic Snapshot from EPI

FEBRUARY 18 | EPI NewsFlash: White House Lowers Expectations
The White House backed away from a earlier jobs growth prediction imade by the President’s Council of economic Advisers. A joint analysis by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examining the significance of the White House reversal.

FEBRUARY 13 | EPI NewsFlash: Administration’s Job Projections Miss the Mark
The Council of Economic Advisers’ new claim that in 2004 the average number of jobs will be 2.6 million higher than in 2003 is out of sync with labor market realities, according to three experts from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute. Click here for the press release and the detailed report.

FEBRUARY 6 | EPI NewsFlash: Weak Recovery Indicated in Both Employment Surveys
The Jobs Picture analysis reports that unemployment fell slightly and payrolls expanded in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A significant jobs deficit still persists. A second survey, the household survey, paints a rosier picture. Economist Jared Bernstein explains why the payroll survey is the most accurate picture of job growth in the JobsPicture.

JANUARY 21 | EPI SNAPSHOT: Jobs shift from higher to lower paying industries

JANUARY 21 | Job Quality On the Decline, New Analysis Shows

JANUARY 20 | Media Conference Call On Job Quality – Wed Jan 21st 11 AM and 1 PM EST

JANUARY 9 | EPI Jobs Picture

JANUARY 7 | EPI MEDIA ADVISORY: News Briefing Conference Call FRIDAY, Jan. 9, NOON EST
Can Bush Meet His Own Benchmark for Job Creation? (Advisory) | Listen to this conference (Audio Archive)

2003

DECEMBER 12 | Measuring employment since the recovery

DECEMBER 5 | EPI Jobs Picture

NOVEMBER 7 | EPI Jobs Picture

NOVEMBER 7 | Labor Slump Worst Since Great Depression

OCTOBER 21 | Administration Reneges on Job Promise

OCTOBER 8 | EPI SNAPSHOT: Why the recovery is still jobless?