The U.S. unemployment rate remains above 9 percent, and now President Obama says he has a few ideas to create new jobs, including free trade deals with Panama and South Korea.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance declined in the last week of July, the U.S. Labor Department said. Economists like Mesirow Financial's Diane Swonk say this puts the onus on central banks to juice the economy.
Jobs For America, a call center collation, said today it's hoping to create up to 100,000 jobs in the next two years in the call center industry — jobs coming back from being outsourced to places like India and the Philippines.
A couple of jobs reports out today could be an optimistic bit of news heading into Friday, when we get the Labor Department's all-important July employment report