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In a recent blog post at the New York Federal Reserve Bank entitled “The Bathtub Model: The Importance of Labor Market Flow Dynamics,” the authors conclude that under certain conditions, the...
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The data this morning from the Labor Department is not great news, but it is not awful news either. The weekly jobless claims came in 351,000 from a revised figure of 353,000 a week ago. ...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims were unchanged after a revision higher the week before. That puts the claims for the last week at 351,000 and the prior...
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January unemployment fell to 8.2%. Recent weekly jobless claims have fallen to multiyear lows and are now consistently below 400,000. The figures mask a growing regional jobs problem. It has...
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The Labor Department is out with two market-moving reports. The weekly Jobless Claims came in at very impressive levels compared to the past and the Producer Price Index looks a bit mixed between...
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The Labor Department has just given its newest report on Weekly Jobless Claims and the news is heading more and more in the right direction. The new rate is down to 358,000, and the prior’s weeks...
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There was a huge surprise from the Labor Department this morning to the upside. The non-farm payrolls grew by a whopping 243,000 and that was far higher than almost all economists were projecting...
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The weekly jobless claims data from the Labor Department showed a continued trend of improvement this morning. The new jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 367,000 in the week ended January 28. The...
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The Challenger jobs data for January is offering another preview of data for Friday’s non-Farm and unemployment data from the Labor Department. The January cuts were 53,486 and that is up 28%...
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ADP is out with its pre-unemployment data for the month of January. The effort aims to front-run the Labor Department’s non-Farm Payrolls projections. The new report from ADP is predicting that...
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America must add four million jobs next year to significantly eat away at the employment loss of the past four years. More than 16 million citizens are out of work in the U.S. That puts the...
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After a sizzling hot figure from ADP on private sector jobs created, the weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department came in with a drop of 15,000 to 372,000 for the week. Bloomberg had the...
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