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- A jobless recovery? (Viewpoint).(US economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- With the economic downturn an established fact, it appears that fears of recession are being replaced by concerns over the shape of an eventual recovery. While most forecasters and market participants presumably welcome what should turn out to be With the economic...
- Research articles 2002-01-07
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
- The Coming Jobless Recovery
- Now we are getting the clearest indication yet that we are headed for a jobless recovery. A total of 467,000 jobs were eliminated in June, bringing the jobless rate to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May, according to the Labor Department. The jobless rate was the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
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- Drop in Unemployment Rate, Rise in Job Creation Point to Recovery.
- By Barbara Clements, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 19--All signs seem to point toward recovery. The unemployment rate is coming down, both locally and nationally, while the number of jobs created -- 300,000 nationally in March...
- Research articles 2004-04-19
- Nine Million Part-Timers Mean Slow Job Growth in Recovery
- During this recession we've come to learn that the headline rate of unemployment doesn't tell us the whole truth about the job market. The official rate for July was down a bit, to 9.4 percent, but the government's alternative measure (called U-6), which includes people who are forced to work...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Consider These Conditions When Using the Unemployment Rate as 'Any Kind' of Indicator
- Investors and the media (CNBC) are too quick to affirmatively state that “unemployment is a lagging indicator.” The unemployment rate is not so much a “lagging indicator” as it is a reflection of investors’ past behavior to use it to predict the beginning of a large stock market recovery....
- External links 2009-07-10
- Washington Unemployment Rate Climbs to 7 Percent.
- By Pamela Sitt, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--Washington's unemployment rate hit 7 percent in March, inching up from February's revised 6.9 percent and stalling the state's previously forecast "very slow" recovery from recession, according to figures released...
- Research articles 2003-04-23
- Unemployment Rate Cushioned By Government Hiring
- In July in some of the first good news the U.S. economy had seen in several months the unemployment rate actually declined slightly. It was down to 9.4 percent from about 9.6 percent. Many economists still predict it going higher as economic activity in the U.S. stagnates or...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- U.S. Jobless Rate Surges to 10.2 Percent
- By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.The Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 190,000 jobs in October,...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Jobless Rate Surges to 10.2 Percent
- By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.The Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 190,000 jobs in October,...
- News items 2009-11-07
- U.S. Jobless Rate at 26 Year Record
- By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.The Labour Department said on Friday that employers cut 190,000 jobs in...
- News items 2009-11-07
- Fed Officials Cautious on U.S. Economic Recovery
- By Kristina CookeATLANTA (Reuters) - Three top Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday struck a cautious note on the U.S. economy, citing high unemployment, heavy reliance on government support and commercial real estate woes as hurdles to recovery.Speaking less than a week after the Fed left interest rates unchanged at near...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Unemployment Report: It Just Ain't Labor's Day
- So the headline number on unemployment is 9.7%. That alone might be enough to send people into the last weekend of summer with the sense that the economy has a long winter ahead of it. But ugly as that 0.3 percentage point jump in the closely watched number is, a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Asia Helps Feeble West in Global Recovery: OECD
- By Brian LovePARIS (Reuters) - Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialized countries, the OECD said on Thursday.Central banks and governments in major Western economies should prepare for...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Fed Officials See Choppy Recovery For U.S. Economy
- By Pedro da Costa and Kristina CookeAUSTIN/ATLANTA (Reuters) - High unemployment and reluctant consumers will likely make an incipient U.S. economic recovery weak and erratic, top Federal Reserve officials said in a string of speeches across the country on Tuesday.That means interest rates, currently at historic lows close to zero,...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Asia Helps Feeble West in Global Recovery -OECD
- By Brian LovePARIS (Reuters UK) - Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialised countries, the OECD said on Thursday.Central banks and governments in major Western economies should prepare...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Economy is Struggling With a Jobless Recovery
- A number of key economic measures declined this week, indicating the country is still struggling to emerge from the recession. While none of the data points was cause for alarm, taken together they indicated a much slower recovery than economists had expected. The biggest surprise was the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Underreported Unemployment: Why Those Jobs May Not Come Back
- Today's weekly report of new unemployment claims showed what appears to be a big improvement -- a sharp drop to 522,000. But the seasonal adjustment factors are distorting our perspective, and the numbers are not as good as they look. We should probably be adjusting our long-term perspective, too, say...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Rising Interest Rates Are Killing the Recovery
- A sheaf of economic indicators this week indicates the recovery is in deep trouble. The biggest shock was a sharp increase in bond yields. The yield on 10 year Treasury bonds rose to a peak of four percent, the highest since last August, before pulling back to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- We Need Inflation to Spur a Recovery
- Lee Ohanian makes a very persuasive argument that zero percent inflation does not harm an economy. Sometimes that's true, but I don't think it's the case this time. Because we are all consumers, we naturally think lower prices are good. Yet the U.S. just experienced the lowest...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
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