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The steady employment gains in recent months suggest a rough answer. The unemployment rate has been 7.9 percent, 7.8 percent and 7.8 percent for the past three months, while the labor force participation rate has been 63.8 percent, 63.6 percent and 63.6 percent. Meanwhile, job gains have averaged 151,000.
The Current Population Survey ( CPS) [1] is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Employment Situation. [2] This report provides estimates of the unemployment rate and the numbers ...
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.
US economy added just 114,000 jobs last month and unemployment rose to 4.3%. What a jarring way to start the month of August. Last month’s job growth was far, far softer than expected, and the ...
Bellingham’s unemployment rate increased month to month. The city’s unemployment rate was 5.1% in July, with 2,500 people unemployed, an increase from June’s 4.5% unemployment rate and 2,211 ...
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 ...
The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [ 1] Before the pandemic, the U.S. labor force had risen each year since 1960 with ...
The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [ 1][ 2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data ...