Immigrant unemployment rate same as American-born workers

• Black workers' unemployment gap

  Though blacks' job prospects have improved from the depths of the Great Recession, they still suffer from disproportionately high unemployment.

  Pegged to Black History Month, the U.S. Congress' Joint Economic Committee put out a stats sheet highlighting the gap. It takes longer, on average, for black workers for find a job, and even having a college degree doesn't help as much as it does for other job-seeking populations. The black unemployment rate MORE

  Tami Luhby - Feb 6, 2013 11:14 AM ET
  Posted in: african-americans, blacks, cnnmoney, economy, employment, jobs, unemployment

• Battle of the beards: Bernanke vs. Krugman

  By now, you have probably heard of the "feud" taking place between Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Nobel-prize winning New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman. And if you haven't, what the heck are you doing reading this blog?

  Anyway, here's the lowdown in case you aren't up to speed. Krugman took Bernanke to task in a Sunday NYT magazine piece, criticizing Bernanke for not doing enough to tackle the MORE

  Paul R. La Monica - Apr 26, 2012 3:27 PM ET
  Posted in: beards, Ben Bernanke, economy, employment, Federal Reserve, inflation, Paul Krugman

• Asians and Hispanics find more jobs

  Hispanics and Asians suffered a lower rate of job loss in the recession and enjoyed a faster rate of growth during the recovery than their black and white counterparts.

  Hispanics experienced only a 2.4% loss in employment during the Great Recession, followed by a 6.5% gain during the recovery, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

  Asians had a similar experience, with a 2.8% job loss and a 6.8% MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 21, 2012 11:05 AM ET
  Posted in: asians, blacks, employment, hispanics, pew hispanic center, recession, whites

• Obama wants to give you $4,000 toward job training

  Here's the latest way President Obama wants to help the unemployed.

  The president is looking to give displaced workers $4,000 a year to pursue training in technical fields to land new jobs.

  The grants are part of the latest jobs proposal unveiled by Obama Monday. Many of them have gone nowhere as Congress and the White House continue to fight over the best way to promote job creation.

  The plan would provide additional MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 12, 2012 4:58 PM ET
  Posted in: american job center, employment, job training, jobs, Obama, unemployment, universal displaced worker program

• 'Jobs gap' won't close till 2020

  Though employers are finally hiring again, it could take until 2020 to get employment back to pre-recession levels.

  The new estimate of the jobs gap, released Monday by Brookings' Hamilton Project, is

  based on a relatively rosy monthly job creation estimate of 208,000. (That's the average rate for 2005, which was the best year of job creation in the 2000s.)

  While that may sound optimistic, job growth has been on a winning streak, MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 12, 2012 1:29 PM ET
  Posted in: brookings, employment, jobs, jobs gap, unemployment

• Nuclear sentinel to help keep jobs data under wraps

  The Department of Labor has asked Sandia National Laboratories to take a look at its data security procedures, including how the agency keeps the all-important monthly jobs report secret until its official release.

  Yes -- the same Sandia National Laboratories that safeguards the nuclear arsenal of the United States.

  The company's involvement was first reported by CNBC, and an agency official confirmed details to CNNMoney.

  According to the official, the agency is now MORE

  Charles Riley - Mar 8, 2012 3:43 PM ET
  Posted in: bureau of labor statistics, department of labor, employment, jobs report, sandia national laboratories