by Andrew Moran | Feb 3, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
Despite economists and market analysts promising that 2024 would be the beginning of a labor market slowdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shocked the world again by delivering gangbuster headline figures in its most recent jobs report. The surface numbers...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 20, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
The US labor market is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. As everyone glanced at the headline numbers inside the latest jobs report, others took a deeper dive into the figures. The trends were quite concerning, from the collapse of full-time employment to...
by Kelli Ballard | Jan 19, 2024 | Articles, Opinion, Privacy & Tech
Silicon Valley, the tech hub of the United States, has led generations of technological innovations and brought thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses to the San Francisco Bay area since the 1970s. Now, many of these jobs are in danger of being deleted with the...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 12, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
Who doesn’t love the smell of revisions in the morning? Over the past year, the American people have been told ad nauseam that the US labor market is strong, solid, and sublime as the number of new jobs keeps growing every month. This is Bidenomics, don’t...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 3, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
Millions of people have endured a cost-of-living crisis in the last couple of years, forcing public policymakers to abandon elementary economic principles. The minimum wage is a perfect illustration of this. Recent decisions by states on wage floor hikes emphasize the...