There may be some signs that a fledgling recovery is beginning to take hold in the labor market, but we have had these kinds of moves [before], so we don't want to make too much out of it. |
There were close to 200,000 jobs cut in the past couple of months, making them the worst two months of last year. The jobless recovery is not only lingering, it's deepening. |
These are workers who have the weakest bargaining leverage and are most likely to be exploited, particularly in a period where you have a weak labor demand and a large labor supply. |
These losses may reflect the fact that consumers facing higher energy prices and falling real [inflation-adjusted] wages are cutting back on discretionary spending. |
These numbers reveal a labor market that's not bouncing back quickly enough to absorb new entrants along with the people laid off during the downturn. |
These results reveal the breadth of the unprecedented gap between the pace of overall economic progress and the returns to working people. |
These top line numbers suggest we are into what's beginning to look like a jobless recovery. We simply can't drive unemployment down if we're only adding 30 or 40,000 jobs. So, basically, we're looking at a situation where the recovery is calling, but the labor market isn't really picking up the phone. |
This could mean that the labor market is another area coming on line in the nation's recovery. |
This decline [in the jobless rate] is certainly the largest drop we've seen in recent months, so it does suggest a stronger labor market than we expected. |
This doesn't look like a significantly different report than we've gotten in past months, but that's significant in itself. The labor market is clearly stuck in neutral. |
This is a pretty negative report. The reason unemployment ticked down is the labor force contracted. That suggests fewer people are getting into the game, looking for work, and that kind of discouragement can lead to a lower unemployment rate. |
This is a tremendously detailed, comprehensive look at the American family's balance sheet and it ain't pretty. |
This is very much the type of job report you would expect coming off a strong quarter. |
This is what a healthy job market looks like ? we just haven't seen it for a long while, so it makes inflation hawks nervous. |
This isn't an administration that wakes up and says 'what can we do for the working class family today,' |