The economy added 80,000 non-farm jobs in June and the unemployment rate remained at 8.2 percent. Alan Krueger, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, puts the latest numbers in perspective.

The U.S. Labor Department has released its monthly jobs report. Employers added just 80,000 jobs last month, while unemployment stayed stagnant at 8.2 percent.

Many economists are expecting fewer than 100,000 new jobs created, and unemployment to hold at 8.2% for the month of June.

Today central banks in Europe and China announced new monetary stimulus measures to spur economic growth. How will the global stimulus measures impact the U.S. economy and unemployment?

Today's job numbers are good, but economists still think tomorrow's will be mediocre.

Ahead of tomorrow's June jobs report, data today shows the number of planned job cuts at U.S. companies has dropped to the lowest level in 13 months.

A proud mom nominates her daughter, who weathered a year of unemployment, for this week’s Piggy Award.

Re-training the unemployed might just give some job seekers an edge over others.

Marketplace's Chris Farrell argues that this recovery is more similar to the jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s than of the 1980s and 1970s, and he talks about what to expect going forward.