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I am an economist and I am very much not worried about this. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/02/17/unemployed-workers-retraining/ In the aftermath of any recession, when the unemployment rate is still elevated, *witho
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Today is the last #JobsDay with data from the Trump Administration (today’s data are from mid-January). So what does the economy former President Trump handed off to President Biden look
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Another 1.1 million people applied for UI last week, including 779,000 who applied for regular state UI and 349,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The 1.1
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This morning DOL released some of the first economic data of the Biden presidency—last week's initial unemployment insurance claims (okay, *half* of last week was in the Biden presidency). What
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This morning BLS released 2020 data on unionization, and it is fascinating. A thread. 1/ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm In 2020, 15.9 million workers in the U.S. were represented by a union—a decline
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This morning, DOL released some of the last unemployment insurance (UI) claims data of the Trump era. That means this release helps us understand the economy President Biden just inherited.
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Here we are, astonishingly, at the first #JobsDay of 2021. As we are all taking stock of where things stand in our democracy, it’s a moment to also take stock
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There was an armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol yesterday in which the police were complicit in a way that has everything to do with structural racism. And that is
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Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 885,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 455,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The
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Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 853,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 428,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The
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Today's #JOLTS data show that by the end of Oct—3 months after Senate Republicans let the extra $600 in weekly UI benefits expire—there were 4.2 million more unemployed workers than
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Another grim finding is that we are down 1.3 million state and local government jobs over the last 9 months—most of it (more than 1.0 million) in education. THIS IS
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