Here, we find especially good news: A new high in total employment and a seasonal low unemployment rate of 5.9%, comparable to past periods. Chart courtesy of Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (FRED) ...

Employment rates for STEM Ph.D.s are down or stagnant across the board. ... But the graphs don’t lie. ... Note the red line hovering above 40 percent employment: Those are the postdocs.

The Household Survey is generated from a survey of about 60,000 households; these data include farm jobs in their employment totals. The household survey is used to generate unemployment rate figures.

The chart shows why, i.e., new construction is falling hard (left hand chart). Noteworthy is that sales of new homes have fallen by more than -30% since July as 30-year fixed mortgage rates have ...

The U.S. created only 136,000 jobs in September, following an increase of 168,000 in August (after an upward revision). The nonfarm payrolls were short of the analysts’ forecast of 150,000. The ...

The graph below depicts the U.S. unemployment rate (U-3 measure) from around 1948 to 2022. Shaded areas represent periods of recession. This graph shows the unemployment rate (blue line) and ...

Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...