The average newspaper has 10 times more analysis of a football game than it does of the jobs market. Here’s an attempt to balance it out.

Rates resilient once again, and look to end week up just slightly on improving economic news.

We should pay attention to the labor participation rate not the unemployment rate because labor participation drives the economy.

All today’s stats with charts. Generally good reports.

Market recap/outlook in plain English.

Politicians love to talk about “job creators” when pitching their policies. It’s a ridiculous phrase, which is why I was so glad to see The Onion give it a proper beat-down this week. As usual, the headline says it all—Remains Of Ancient Race Of Job Creators Found In Rust Belt—but this is one of those [...]

Rates are down today—regaining some of yesterday’s rise and ending the week near record lows—after this morning’s BLS report showed the economy added 80k non-farm payrolls in October. Plus September was revised from 103,000 to 158,000 new jobs created and August was revised from 57,000 to 104,000. This figure doesn’t count actual people, it counts [...]

BLS Jobs – Non-Farm jobs for October were +80,000. – Unemployment rate was 9.0%. Down from 9.1% – Average workweek was 34.3 hours – unchanged – Average Hourly Earnings was +0.2%. -Details: Private Jobs were +104,000. Public Jobs were -24,000. This will continue as state and local government continue to shed weight.

Jobs -ADP Private jobs for October +110,000 -Previous was +91,000 vs. consensus of 100,000 -Full report

Friday is the big Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for October. Markets expect 88k-100k new jobs created in October and unemployment to hold at 9.1%. Through September, the economy added 1.074m jobs or 119k/mo, but there are still 6.6m fewer jobs than the beginning of the recession in December 2007.