February 03, 2012
U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ January 2012 jobs report showing that the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent and 243,000 total nonfarm jobs were added.
January 31, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In anticipation of the second meeting of the Payroll Tax Cut Conference Committee, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), Chaired by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), released a new report detailing how much money would stay in the pocket of one- and two-earner families at a county-level based on median wage and salary income per worker.
January 27, 2012
U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement after the announcement from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that Gross Domestic Product grew by 2.8 percent annual rate in the fourth-quarter of 2011.
January 26, 2012
Today, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released the January 2012 edition of its state-by-state snapshots which detail each individual state’s economic progress for the previous month.