…Private payroll employment was up 166,000 as government employment fell again. But on a year over year change the two reports are still showing very similar gains. The workweek increased…

The employment report was better than expected as Sandy apparently did not have the widely expected negative impact. But the data essentially shows that the recent trend of weak employment…

The employment situation was mixed with the headline number, payroll employment adding 114,000 and the household report showing a gain of 873,000. To a great extent the very large increase…

…Total Employment Gains since their respective Recessions, knowing that we’re spotting the Previous Administration when looking at total Non-Farm Payroll: The Obama Administration got employment back to the end-of-recession level…

The employment report shows signs of an improved employment situation, but on balance it looks like more of the same. The unemployment rate fell 0.2 points to 8.5%. This continues…

…employment data is the Quarterly County Employment and Wages report, which is not a sample, but the full census of 95% of all establishments. Unfortunately, it has two drawbacks: (1)…

…wage rates, employment has continued at a strong if decelerated pace. Scenes from the April employment report: the Fed just can’t kill the employment “beast,” Angry Bear, New Deal democrat….

…been all year in this index, is employment, which did improve, but from 45.3 to 46.0. Here is employment from both the manufacturing (blue) and services (gray) indexes: In short,…

– by New Deal democrat The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census of 95%+ of all employers,…

…material surplus. Extensive Western documentation of Iroquois prosperity, economic and social structure dates from the mid 17th century. [I like Dr. Barbara Mann’s Iroquoian Women for her summary and critique…