U.S. Employment: Stabilizing At Last

Prieur du Plessis submits: As announced by the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday, payroll employment increased by 162,000 in March, recording the largest increase in three years. Chart of the Day provides a handy chart to put the labor situation in perspective by comparing job losses following the beginning of the current economic recession (solid red line) to that of the last recession (dashed gold line) and the average recession from 1950-1999 (dashed blue line).Complete Story »