…reading of the unemployment rate is out of the picture,  and there is only one 3.5% reading left (for July), I continue to expect that the unemployment rate is more…

…does not suggest any upward pressure on the unemployment rate for May, which will be reported next week: Since the unemployment rate lags initial claims by several months, they are…

Report on the impact from the expanded unemployment insurance, economic impact payments, aid to states and localities, child tax credits, and temporary protection from eviction amongst other measures as reported…

…entrants to the labor force who fail to find their first job will not show up in unemployment claims; but they will show up in the unemployment rate.” I think…

…by NDd here: July jobs report. Is the US headed for a recession? Business and Economy News by Megha Bahree, Al Jazeera. The unexpected rise in the unemployment rate in…

…of workers. Overall unemployment has averaged 3.8% since 2022, compared with 6.4% between 2007–2019 and 4.0% between 2017–2019. For Black workers, unemployment has averaged 5.7% since 2022, compared with 11.1%…

…+ continuing claims in gold, since the unemployment rolls include people looking for work on both new and continuing basis. Also the unemployment rate data is rendered as the %…

…3.2 percent rate). That brought the average growth rate for Biden’s presidency to 3.2 percent, the highest since Clinton’s second term. The unemployment rate fell to 4.0 percent in January,…

…our look at what this suggests about the unemployment rate in the months ahead, since initial claims in particular have a very long record of leading the unemployment rate: On…

…strong. The big weakness was on the unemployment side, where the unemployment rate, underemployment rate, number of newly unemployed, and those not in the labor force who want a job…