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The US unemployment rate under Obama started out at 9.5% as the banks collapsed and ends now at 4.6% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These stats – as BLS professionals will tell you – are slow to acknowledge the new forms of work and benefits and other key factors. Still they provide a rough view of a positive …
This trend in unemployed men between the age of 19 and 30 is a critical sign of change. Social and economic trends all over are being driven by this shift. Job growth in the United States has been very strong since the Great Recession. Still, this must be seen as a transformation more than simply a linear recovery. Despite record …
Total non-farm payroll employment increased by 242,000 in February of 2016, higher than an upwardly revised 172,000 in the previous month and beating market expectations of 190,000. The trend in this chart suggests that the recovery has remained remarkably stable, despite Uber-like business models and non-exempt, hourly employment terms changing the shape of labor.