“Unemployment” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, suggesting modest but steady gains in the job market. (more)

The April jobs report shows that the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent, nearing the 8 percent threshold that Obama administration promised with his $750 billion stimulus bill. (more)

WASHINGTON – Businesses added only 115,000 jobs in April, another weak month of job creation, but the unemployment rate came down from 8.2% to 8.1% as more people gave up looking for work. (more)

Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s administration has fired 61 city employees for collecting unemployment benefits while working for the District government, city officials said Tuesday. (more)

With the Charlotte, NC skyline as a central feature, a new Romney campaign web video is hitting President Barack Obama for his impact on the state and city that will host Democratic National Convention. (more)

President Barack Obama holds a big lead over Mitt Romney among women voters, but on Tuesday the Romney campaign was busy arguing he shouldn’t. In a press release, the campaign said 92.3 percent of the jobs lost in the U.S. since Obama took office belonged to women. (more)

Despite the disappointing jobs report for March, it’s very difficult to make a realistic case that the economy is falling off a cliff, or that some kind of double-dip recession is on the way. Or that a Ben Bernanke QE3 is likely. (more)

Our nation has a problem: Students are graduating with huge amounts of debt and bleak job prospects. With the average loan size at $12,800, college graduates collectively now shoulder over a trillion dollars in debt. With 60 percent of recent college graduates unable to find full-time jobs in their chosen professions, many have little hope of paying off these loans. (more)

Economists at the NY Fed have come up with an alternative to the standard Okun’s Law that sees the unemployment rate falling well below consensus. (more)

The text of a new Bernanke speech on the state of the labor market just hit. (more)

T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm has sent a memo to his employees today announcing the net elimination of around 1,900 jobs nationwide, primarily resulting from the closure of seven call center facilities located in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Frisco, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; Lenexa, Kansas; Thornton, Colorado; and Redmond, Oregon. In reality, though, more staff will be affected than that — 3,300 positions are being slashed in total, with 1,400 being added at the company’s remaining 17 call centers. (more)

The last time I got paid was Feb. 7. (more)

Is the U.S. economy finally, fully recovered from the financial fiascoes that befell it during the fall of 2008? Or is it still feeble? Though the Obama administration — and David Axelrod, the president’s chief campaign guru — would have voters imagine America is poised for prosperity again, other observers and analysts told The Daily Caller they aren’t so sure about that just yet. (more)

There’s so much hidden unemployment in the labor force that even Friday’s improved jobs numbers failed to decrease the official unemployment rate of 8.3 percent… (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States added 227,000 jobs in February, the latest display of the breadth and strength of the economic recovery. The country has put together the most impressive three months of job growth since before the Great Recession. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But the overall level stayed low enough to suggest the job market is strengthening. (more)

It has been nearly three years since the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the official arbiter of U.S. business cycles, declared an end to the Great Recession. But in spite of the agency’s proclamation, the labor market in many states remains stalled; in some cases, the jobs picture is getting worse. (more)

Anthony Garcia had family and friends cash his $1,600-a-month unemployment checks while he served time, L.A. County sheriff’s officials said. Fellow gang members got part, they said. (more)

Good morning. Here’s what you need to know. (more)

White House officials are trying to downplay the growing political damage caused by a shrinking federal statistic: the percentage of working-age Americans who actually have jobs. (more)