Observations on the December 2016 Employment Situation

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  By Steven R. Drexel, President and CEO of Cornerstone Staffing Solutions, Inc.   On Friday January 6th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) released its monthly summary of labor market activity covering December 2016. The consensus expectation called for job growth to match November’s increase which was originally reported as 176,000 net new jobs. The official… Read more »

Observations on the September 2016 Employment Situation

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  By Steven R. Drexel, President and CEO of Cornerstone Staffing Solutions, Inc. On Friday October 7th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) released its monthly summary of labor market activity covering September 2016. The consensus expectation called for job growth to improve modestly from August’s mildly disappointing increase which was originally reported as 151,000… Read more »