TIME

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Why are President Trump and markets trumpeting very bad but better than expected jobs numbers as proof that the economic recovery is under way? To some degree, this is a classic case of outperforming low expectations. If your bar is sufficiently low,

Money Magazine

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Six out of 10 experts say now is not a good time to buy property, according to research from comparison site Finder. It asked property experts and economists how much they expect prices to drop by 2021, considering the effects of the coronavirus pand

TechLife News

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For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy. Furlou

Inc.

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THE EIGHT-YEAR economic recovery has been unevenly spread. Rising housing costs can be a drag on growth, because they deter worker mobility. And housing supply lags demand. To make sense of it all, Mark Fleming, chief economist for title insurer Firs

NPR

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Retail sales jumped nearly 10% in March, as shoppers, flush with $1,400 relief payments, are feeling more confident about venturing out. Weekly unemployment claims dropped to a pandemic low.

Time Magazine International Edition

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Why are President Trump and markets trumpeting very bad but better than expected jobs numbers as proof that the economic recovery is under way? To some degree, this is a classic case of outperforming low expectations. If your bar is sufficiently low,

Chicago Tribune

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The decade now coming to an end delivered an underappreciated benefit to Americans that they'd surely notice if it were missing: Extraordinary job growth. While it's true, as we wrote in an accompanying editorial, that the 2010s don't yet have a defi

Finweek - English

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keynes’ famous quip that “in the long run, we’re all dead” has been misunderstood for almost a century. Many have interpreted it to mean that he cared little about the future. But that would be a mistake. He used it to explain how the quantity theory

Business Today

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The number of people employed fell a massive 11.4 crore in April, according to the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey by the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) The worst hit were small traders and labourers, whose employment numbers fell fro

India Today

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Jobs are always the central issue in any economy. Elections are won and lost on unemployment figures. After all, they are about human beings. People have to earn money from jobs for the goods or services they first produce and then consume which make

NPR

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The last time the U.S. jobless percentage sat below 4 percent was in December of 1999. April brought net job gains, but fell short of economists' predictions.

NPR

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As efforts to slow the coronavirus pandemic temporarily put millions of Americans out of work, forecasters are predicting a record slowdown in the U.S. economy.

Los Angeles Times

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WASHINGTON - As 3 million more Americans sought jobless insurance benefits in the past week, the numbers reflected a well-established fact: When the economy stumbles, the pain falls first and hardest on those least able to bear it. A study released T

TechLife News

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Orders to American factories for big-ticket goods rebounded last month from a disastrous April and March as the U.S. economy began to slowly reopen. The Commerce Department said that orders for manufactured goods meant to last at least three years sh

NPR

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Jobless claims rose sharply last week as critical relief programs, including expanded jobless benefits, are due to expire the day after Christmas.

Weekend Argus Saturday

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THE Institute for Race Relations (IRR) has described the latest unemployment figures as a “humanitarian crisis”. Results of the Third Quarter Labour Force Survey published on Thursday pegged the country’s unemployment rate at 30.8%. However, the expa

NPR

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Analysts are looking for the economy to continue adding jobs at a steady pace and for unemployment to stay low. But below the headline numbers, they're looking for signs that wages are picking up.

The Atlantic

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This is war. That is the clear message from governments around the world that have locked down their populations and ordered businesses shuttered. It is the new reality for corporations that are repurposing their facilities to manufacture ventilator

NPR

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Wage growth — and more specifically, the lack of vigorous pay raises — continued to be an issue, with average hourly earnings nudging slightly upward to 2.9 percent.

Beijing Review

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With the easing of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China and vouchers being broadly used by local governments and merchants to boost consumer spending, some analysts say it would be more effective if combined with an improvement in employment. The

TechLife News

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The overall economic measure of a monthly survey of Midwest business leaders hit a 16-year high for October, but the manufacturing sector of the economy remains stunted from the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Creighton University Mid-America

NPR

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The unemployment rate for black workers has now dropped below 8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Some of April's biggest job gains came in hospitality, health care and social assistance.

Los Angeles Times

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WASHINGTON - Private employers accelerated their hiring in August, adding a robust 237,000 net new jobs in a sign that the labor market remains strong and should start pushing up wages. The figures released Wednesday by payroll firm Automatic Data Pr

The Atlantic

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In the final month of 2017, the U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. All told, an additional 2.11 million jobs were added in all of 2017—a performance that

Chicago Tribune

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It's often said that the stock market is not the real economy, meaning: Wall Street traders make educated guesses about the future, so don't read too much into this or that moment's results. Stocks bounce around. GDP numbers, hiring and other data be

TechLife News

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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits surged last week by 70,000 to the highest level in more than two years, indicating that the effect of the coronavirus was starting to be felt in rising layoffs in the job market. The

Manhattan Institute

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Policymakers should move toward a phased-in, regional approach to re-openings—and pay attention not only to infections but also unemployment.

India Today

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The Indian economy is often criticised as delivering jobless growth—from 2001 to 2011, the economy’s average growth rate was 7.7 per cent, but the job growth rate was a meagre 1.8 per cent. Reports indicate that matters may not have changed much in t