Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This data comes from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics news release in February, 2012. “The BLS projections are built on the assumption of a full employment economy in 2020. The 2007-09 recession represented […]
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U.S. Unemployment Rate vs. Participation Rate [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the monthly jobs report for June, 2012. The BLS said private payrolls increased 84,000, while the government lost 4,000 jobs. Economists expected job growth of […]
Goods vs Service Industry Employment Trends [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Pretty much everyone knows that the U.S. is a service-based economy. Until I looked at the data, I never would have guessed how disparate the goods and service industry employment trends were.