Author: Charles Bell

Getting Better All the Time? (Don’t Drown While Wading Through the Numbers…) The Jobs Report for December 2024

By Frank Stricker January 21, 2025 The number of non-farm jobs, which comes from employer reports, grew by 256,000 in December. That was more than expected. For the whole of 2024, the total number of non-farm jobs increased by 2.2 million or 1.4%. That percentage doesn’t look so great. In the household survey, the number… Read More Getting Better All the Time? (Don’t Drown While Wading Through the Numbers…) The Jobs Report for December 2024

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2024 NJFAN Funding Appeal Letter

Trudy Goldberg, Chair National Jobs for All Network Dear Friends, I’m happy to write to you with some good news—in these challenging times! We’ve just completed several years of Strategic Planning to determine—How Best to Use a Generous Bequest from NJFAN co-founder Helen Lachs Ginsburg to further our advocacy of living-wage work for all. And now—We… Read More 2024 NJFAN Funding Appeal Letter

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The Jobs Report for November 2024; Five Decades of Stagnant Wages

By Frank Stricker 12/16/24 The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation for November suggests that the labor market got over the big bump of strikes and storms that resulted in few job additions in October. Just 12,000 jobs were added then. In November, 227,000 jobs were added—not enough, but pretty good by conventional standards and… Read More The Jobs Report for November 2024; Five Decades of Stagnant Wages

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report for September 2024

By Frank Stricker October 10, 2024 Mainstream Views The BLS report for September was, in the mainstream view of things, pretty positive. Non-farm jobs gathered from employers’ reports increased by 254,000—the biggest increase in six months. In the household survey, the unemployment rate fell a tenth of a point in both August and September, and… Read More The Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report for September 2024

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