Topic: U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Much like the rest of the economic data of the last couple of weeks, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' nonfarm payroll numbers were ambiguous. President Obama has frequently expressed his admiration for FDR's handling of the Great Depression with a policy of ...

America's Deadliest Jobs

If every cloud has a silver lining, then the bright side of the Great Recession may be fewer people dying from on-the-job injuries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries shows a total of 4,340 fatal injuries on ...

Sign of the Times

What are the tea leaves telling you about the current state of the economy? More importantly, are they telling you the economy is still heading down, marking time or already turning around? As I've mentioned a number of times, don't rely on ...

The Two Bleak Sides of Housing

We now have a fairly complete look at the health of the housing market over the last two months and it's looking pretty weak. While these figures suggest a rather serious situation ahead for housing and the broader economy, one might believe ...
Since February, the number of professionals voluntarily leaving their jobs has outstripped the number of layoffs and discharges in each month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In spite of the fact that the U.S. unemployment rate is near 10 ...
The unemployment data is not good. The job loss was primarily due to the layoff of census workers. Not this time. To see the raw unemployment date, check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.. Perhaps the fact the Obama has extended ...

Unemployment and the Market Since 1948

Here is the lead paragraph from the BLS news release: Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June, and the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. I now show the latest recession ...
Nonfarm payroll employment rose 431,000 in May, rather disappointing since 411,000 of those are temporary census workers hired by the government. I now show the latest recession as having ended in June 2009, following the lead of the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
Here is a chart that overlays its performance on the legendary Dow Crash and Great Depression with the S&P 500 of the 21st century. By the nominal comparison, the market performance during first decade of the 21st century has been significantly stronger ...
Gender mattered during this recession.. What is less well known is that the recession hit male teens harder than female teens. During the national recession, which began in December 2007, the male teen jobless rate peaked at 30.9 percent in December 2009.
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