June Employment Situation Report

U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is struggling three years after the recession ended.

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent.

The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That's one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing last year's pace through the first six months of 2012.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JUNE 2012 - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nonfarm payroll employment continued to edge up in June (+80,000), and the

unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics reported today. Professional and business services added jobs,

and employment in other major industries changed little over the month.

Manufacturing Jobs Returning to America?

Ken O’Brien

There may be hope for a return of manufacturing jobs that have moved overseas.

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The American Worker Has Become Obsolete

Ken O'Brien

Jobs!

When you get right down to it, this is the most important issue on the minds of people as we approach another Presidential election.

The reality is that there is very little any presidential candidate can do about it.