The government monthly "Employment Situation Report" from BLS on the first Friday isn't the only game in town for understanding what's happening to employment. There are alternative data series that makes the news that can help give us some idea of what’s happening in employment. None of these data series is as comprehensive or reliable … Continue reading Employment News – A Muddle Part 4
Day: February 5, 2011
Employment News, A Muddle – Part 3
This is the follow-up to my first two posts on the January Employment Situation Report and the muddled picture it paints. The first post here recounts how there's some apparent contradiction with the headline unemployment rate declining from 9,4% to 9.0% (yeah!) but only 36,000 new jobs created (not good at all). The second post … Continue reading Employment News, A Muddle – Part 3
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