Unemployment, 1990-2016
Interesting choice of music — I might have gone a different way: Unemployment in America, Mapped Over Time via Flowing Data
Finance Capitals of the World
Have a look at this list (with Hong Kong some how missing), via the Telegraph, then imagine what it might look like in 10 years —...
How Do Hurricanes Impact BLS Data ?
Here is a wonky data collection question: With a hurricane bearing down on Florida, how does the BLS deal with potential disruption in...
Why Better Wages Are Tied to Healthcare Costs
Health-Care Costs Ate Your Pay Raises Take-home wages have stagnated for more than 40 years because employers shell out so much more for...
Winner Takes All
From Bloomberg: “The share that the top 1 percent of earners in the U.S. take from total wages has almost doubled since the 1970s, and...
Recovery is (Finally) Driving Median Incomes Higher
During the past two years, we have seen signs that wage pressure is building as the economic recovery grinds on. Enough evidence has now...
Can’t Find Qualified Applicants? Raise Your Pay!
Having Trouble Hiring? Try Paying More Job-market data suggests that employer demand may have caught up with labor supply. Bloomberg,...
US Employment: Good People Hard To Find
I thought this analysis, from Yardeni Research (see public blog here) was very insightful. ~~~ US Employment: Good People Hard...