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Click on the above link to see an interactive map that lets you select the rate of job growth up to January of 2020.
For the rest of the trend, consider my comment in today’s job report: Establishment Survey +146,000; Household Survey -122,000 Jobs; Unemployment 7.7% as Labor Force Shrinks by 350,000 In the last year, the civilian noninstitutional population rose by 3,733,000.
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Index of Aggregate Weekly Hours Average Hourly Earnings vs. CPI BLS Birth-Death Model Black Box The BLS Birth/Death Model is an estimation by the BLS as to how many jobs the economy created that were not picked up in the payroll survey.
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Just 14% expect today’s children to be better off than their parents Just 31% believe the U.S. economy will be stronger in one year Just 27% think the country is heading in the right direction. Just 24% of American Adults believe the job market is better than a year ago 44% think the job market is worse, up 15 points from June Demographics Suggest Majority is Right I happen to agree with the majority who think those now graduating from high school will not be better off than their parents. There are too few jobs, too much student debt, and too few workers supporting too many retirees on Social Security
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