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Economists calculate the cyclically-adjusted full employment unemployment rate, e.g. 4% or 6% unemployment, which in a given context is regarded as "normal" and acceptable. Sometimes, this rate is equated with the NAIRU. The difference between the observed unemployment rate and cyclically adjusted full employment unemployment rate is one ...
Have you read the jobs report published by the Department of Labor Statistics earlier this month? If you haven't, you should. And if you have, you should be very nervous. Yes, I know the S&P has ...
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
US economy added just 114,000 jobs last month and unemployment rose to 4.3%. ... “We’re in an economy where a 100,000-per-month jobs report could mean a good thing, or it could mean a bad ...
CNN reported in September 2020 that GDP grew 4.1% on average under Democrats, versus 2.5% under Republicans, from 1945 through the second quarter of 2020, a difference of 1.6 percentage points. [3] In February 2021, The New York Times reported: "Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic ...
The unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated that about 165,000 jobs were added last month, based on their median ...
The U.S. economy added 199,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That’s compared with consensus estimates for 150,000 ...
The March 2013 unemployment rate of 16.2% for workers under age 25 was slightly over twice the national average. Weak demand for goods and services is the primary driver of this unemployment, not a skills mismatch. Graduating in a bad economy has long-lasting economic consequences.