June 2017 Jobs Report: Better
WAGES STILL WEAK, THOUGH … The U.S. economy added 222,000 jobs during the month of June, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau...
Labor Participation
American Un-Exceptionalism
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SCARY LABOR PARTICIPATION DATA … We’ve written a lot about the labor participation rate being the real employment indicator to watch. Why? Because labor participation...
June Jobs Report: From Famine To Feast
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EMPLOYMENT REBOUND? The federal jobs report released last month was an unmitigated disaster – the worst print since 2010. The one released today? Quite the opposite …...
SC Labor Participation Rate Inches Lower
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PALMETTO STATE HAS NATION’S EIGHTH-SMALLEST WORKFORCE … South Carolina’s labor participation rate slipped from 59.9 percent in April to 59.8 percent in May – the...
Palmetto State’s Labor Participation Still Lagging
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YOU WON’T HEAR ABOUT THIS IN THE “STATE OF THE UNION” RESPONSE … South Carolina’s labor participation rate continues to lag well-behind the national rate,...
Terrible Jobs Data
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LABOR PARTICIPATION CONTINUES TO PLUMMET … WAGES FLAT The federal government released a truly abysmal September 2015 jobs report this week (.pdf here), with only...
Record 93.8 Million Working Age Americans Out Of Labor Force
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BUT THE BARTENDER BUSINESS IS BOOMING … || By FITSNEWS || If you watch your local nightly news this evening, you’ll hear that America’s economy created...
Romano: America Is Due For Another Recession
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“SIX MILLION MISSING JOBS …” || By ROBERT ROMANO || Since 2005, labor participation in the U.S. – that is, those working or looking for...
SC Labor Participation Inches Up Again
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PALMETTO STATE STILL LAGS WELL BEHIND NATIONAL AVERAGE By FITSNEWS || South Carolina’s labor participation rate inched up slightly in October, according to data published...