by Andrew Moran | May 7, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
The labor market is proving to be resilient in the face of a slowing US economy. But while everyone takes a victory lap over the latest data in the April jobs report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revisions are capturing all of the attention. It turns out that...
by Andrew Moran | Apr 8, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
The US job market has been hot, topping economists’ expectations for 11 months. But March might have turned the labor arena and the broader economy upside down. From a banking crisis to the Federal Reserve’s higher interest rates traveling throughout the...
by Tim Donner | Feb 9, 2023 | Articles, Editor's Choice, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
While the annual State of the Union address always draws expansive press coverage focused on one or more large themes, there are usually underlying, nuanced, embedded messages that mostly get overlooked. And that certainly was the case with Joe Biden’s SOTU Tuesday...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 19, 2023 | Business News, Lights, Camera, Action, Opinion, Swamponomics
For the labor market in 2022, it was a time of wine and roses. Or was it really sour wine and rotten roses? There is a debate within economic circles as to the state of the jobs arena. With discussions over part-time jobs and methodologies, everything may be worse...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 16, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
The US labor market has stumped the experts. Here is a summary of the 2022 jobs arena: 4.6 million new jobs, 4.6% average hourly wage growth, 10.4 million employment postings, and close to 4.2 million job quits. Overall, it was a robust component of an economy on the...