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The jobs numbers are reported as part of the "Monthly Employment Situation Report" from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The widely publicized "job creation" number is a net figure, computed as jobs created less jobs lost during the survey month.
The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. [3]According to Gallup, in 2013 North Dakota was ranked number 1 for job creation in the US and had the highest job creation index with a score of 40, thus surpassing its closest competitors District of Columbia and South Dakota's score by 10 points.
In August, the Labor Department announced that it had overstated the number of jobs added to the U.S. economy from March 2023 to March 2024 —and by quite a bit. The economy added 818,000 fewer ...
The CBPP wrote in January 2013: "[December 2012] is the 34th straight month of private-sector job creation, with payrolls growing by 5.3 million jobs (a pace of 157,000 jobs a month) since February 2010; total nonfarm employment (private plus government jobs) has grown by 4.8 million jobs over the same period, or 141,000 a month.
The US economy added almost twice the number of jobs expected in September, ... rising 0.2% on a monthly basis and 4.2% over last year. Economists expected wages to rise 0.3% over last month and 4 ...
Besides California, which plunged from No. 1 to No. 51 in job creation for the states and the District of Columbia, New York fell from No. 5 to No. 50, and Massachusetts from No. 7 to No. 47 ...
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...
Employment in health care also buoyed the broader gain in jobs last month at an increase of 57,000 jobs in June. The gains bring the sector 1.1%, or 176,000 jobs short, of its February 2020 level.