…graph of the 4 week average of new jobless claims through this morning’s report (right scale), compared with the unemployment rate (left): Last month the unemployment rate rose from its…

…household report *delined* by -328,000 jobs. The above household number factors into the unemployment and underemployment rates below. U3 unemployment rate rose 0.2% to 3.7%. U6 underemployment rate rose 0.1%…

…Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker It is really painful to see the regular flow of pieces debating whether AI will lead to mass unemployment. Invariably, these pieces…

…September initial claims rose 10.4% YoY. Since initial claims lead the unemployment rate by several months, this implies that the average unemployment rate by the end of this winter is…

…unemployment rate looked like: Real wages for non-supervisory workers, increased 3.3% between January 2017 and the end of 2019. Meanwhile the unemployment rate fell from 4.7% to 3.5%. And that…

…around 6% to around 3% during a period with unemployment below 4%. This surprised a lot of people who had predicted that inflation fighting would require (or at least cause)…

…population ratio, and those who are not employed but want a job now. The underemployment rate rose slightly, as did the level of short term unemployment. Only the headline unemployment…

…that the unemployment rate should stop deteriorating as well over the next few months.” “Scenes from the jobs report 2: unemployment rate and consumption: weak, but not recessionary,” Angry Bear…

…2 year high in the unemployment rate, last week I write that U wondered whether, because unemployment includes both new and existing job losses, it followed continuing claims more than…

…rose a paltry 0.1%. In the Household Survey, only 64,000 jobs were gained, while unemployment increased by 25,000, driving an increase in the unemployment and underemployment rates. The YoY gain…