Archive for February, 2015

The Department of Labor issued  their jobs report for January and it was positive news on all fronts. The economy added 257,000 jobs in January, wages rebounded from their slump, and 2014  saw the largest gain in jobs since 1999.  The last three months, November and December 2014, and January 2015, witnessed the largest three month expansion of jobs since 1997!

Although unemployment numbers inched up from 5.6 to 5.7, economists saw that as good news since it meant that more ...