Council of Economic Advisers Blog

Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, writes about the latest jobs numbers.

Private nonfarm payroll employment increased by 71,000 in July and the unemployment rate remained at 9.5%.

A tax cut for high-income earners is a particularly ineffective job creation measure.

Private nonfarm payroll employment increased by 83,000 in June and the unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 9.5%.

Payroll employment increased 290,000 in April - the largest one month gain since 2006.

A CEA Report released day surveys the current state of rural America and describes the Obama Administration’s policies for strengthening the rural economy.

The Recovery Act created more that 80,000 clean energy jobs in the first quarter of 2010, according to a new supplement to the CEA's Third Report to Congress on the Recovery Act, which was released on April 14, 2010.

A new report by the Council of Economic Advisers finds that the Recovery Act is responsible for 2.5 million jobs. The report also shows that Recovery Act tax relief and income supports have had an important impact on real disposable income in the last year.

Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the jobs numbers for March, 2010.

A steadily growing share of American workers' total compensation is going to health care costs, and increases in employer-sponsored health-insurance premiums have resulted in lower wage growth.

Steven Braun, Director of Macroeconomic Forecasting for the Council of Economic Advisers, explains how weather events, like the back-to-back February snowstorms in the Northeast, can affect payroll employment and shorten the workweek.

Jay Shambaugh, a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, looks at the effect of stimulus across countries as much of the world responds to an economic crisis.

Council of the Chair of Economic Advisers Christina Romer discusses the Economic Report of the President that was released today.

Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Eocnomic Advisers, looks back over how the Obama Administration has handled the economy during the past year.