A strong US employment report on Friday masked some lingering malaise. January saw 257,000 new private-sector positions created and the jobless rate falling further to 8.3 per cent. That’s good news for job-seekers and Obama fans.

Tomorrow (Friday) the BLS will release the January Employment Situation Summary at 8:30 AM ET. Bloomberg is showing the consensus is for an increase of 135,000 payroll jobs in January, and for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 8.5%.

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Deconstructing The "Massive Beat" in Employment Data Courtesy of  Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner The headlines are blaring of a massive surge in January employment that blew away analysts expectations. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that any analysts would not have expected this "news." The real time Federal Withholding Tax daily data for January, which I dutifully cover each week in ...

The gist is simple enough: Despite the good employment report, things are still pretty horrible (in that we're very far from full employment) and yet because of the way politics are these days, there's a good chance that the good news will cause people to jump too fast towards austerity and monetary tightening.

Rosy jobs report set off a chain reaction Friday.

Just about the only drawback in Friday's employment report is that at the rate employment has been growing since it bottomed 2 years ago, it will take possibly a decade to make up all of the jobs lost plus population growth since 2007. Even job growth of 250,000 a month would be downright tepid for the 1980s or latter part of the 1990s.

Virtual Employment Agency vWorker.com announced innovations which eliminate the biggest road-block to remote hiring: the hit-or-miss interview process. They open up remote hiring to hundreds of thousands of businesses and job-seekers that could never use it before. (PRWeb February 02, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9155657.htm

Financial burdens plague those earning less than $50,000/year

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