The president said that the 31,000 manufacturing jobs created last month is reason to believe that the industry is on the repair following years of decline.

The nation’s unemployment rate remained at 8.3 percent last month as the economy added 227,000 jobs.

While millions of Americans remain unemployed, we’re hearing about another bad idea that hurts people looking for work. It is misplaced compassion to promise to raise the minimum wage, or to increase it automatically whenever the cost of living goes up. The problem is that when the minimum wage goes…

It’s hard to separate the facts from the politics about job creation in America. More jobs than expected were created in January. Almost a quarter million new jobs is about 100,000 more than projected. We continued a three-month trend of 200,000 or more new jobs each month. That’s a good…

House GOP leaders downplayed what they called “encouraging” jobs numbers Friday and argued that the country would be in a better place if it wasn’t for President Barack Obama. “There is certainly some positive news here,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said. “But the point we’re making is that we…

The U.S. private sector added 257,000 jobs last month, causing the nation’s main unemployment rate to fall from 8.5% to 8.3%.