Last week’s employment report provided a first glimpse at the impact of the two major hurricanes that hit…
Last week’s release of January’s data on homeowners’ spending for remodeling projects brought both good and bad news. The good news is the data for November and December of last year were revised upward by 4 percent and 5 percent respectively. The bad news is January’s…
Employers added 227,000 jobs in January. When this total is combined with the fact that government employees declined by 10,000, private employers actually added 237,000 jobs.