Scan the topline numbers of this month’s jobs report, and you’ll wind up with two wildly different impressions.

US employers added more jobs than expected for a second month and the unemployment rate held steady in April, indicating the labor market is holding up despite rising energy costs sparked by the Iran war. Nonfarm payrolls rose 115,000 last month after an ...

After three months of solid job growth, June marked a somewhat weaker month for the U.S. labor market as employers added 57,000 jobs and data from previous months was revised downward, the Labor Department said July 2. The health care and social ...

It's jobs day in America. The US added 50,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report on the employment situation. Economists expected to see 70,000 jobs added in the final ...