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The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, pointing to steadily easing labor market conditions heading into the final stretch of 2024.
Employers added 256,000 jobs last month, up from 212,000 in November, the Labor Department reported Friday. Unemployment, which was expected to hover around 4.2%, fell to 4.1% last month.
The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a record high of 168.7 million civilians in September 2024. [1] In February 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there were 164.6 million civilians in the labor force. [2]
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, rebounded by 329,000 to 8.040 million by the last day of August, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
The JOLTS report or Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics measuring employment, layoffs, job openings, and quits in the United States economy. The report is released monthly and usually a month after the jobs report for the same reference period. Job separations are broken down into three ...
Labor market growth has fluctuated in 2023, slowing to 165,000 jobs in March and rebounding to 253,000 jobs in April. The number of jobs added is still down from this time in 2022 when 390,000 jobs were added to the economy.
Bella Fraker stands on a snow pile as she poses for a family photo in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, as a large winter storm rolls up the East Coast.
New York City can occasionally experience strong winds, like many coastal locations. Tropical cyclones or intense oceanic storms bring the strongest winds. The strongest gust in Central Park, of 78 miles per hour (126 km/h), occurred on December 2, 1974, however, a station at The Battery reported a gust of 113 miles per hour (182 km/h) on ...