What We’re Doing Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply June 5, 2020 Media Hit Bill Spriggs on the Pandemic's Effect on Joblessness (NPR) February 2, 2018 Media Hit Bill Spriggs Explains the Unemployment and Earnings Gaps Between Blacks and Whites (Los Angeles Times) February 3, 2017 Blog The Economy Adds 227,000 Jobs in January, and Unemployment Little Changed at 4.8% The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January in the last employment report of the the Barack Obama administration. Unemployment was little changed at 4.8%, according to figures released this...