by Frank Stricker August 12, 2025 The official unemployment rate was 4.1% in June. It had been 4.2% in July. It’s been one or the other for the last year. (Just prior to that, in April and May of 2024, the rates were 3.9% and 4%.) Yet for many specific subsets of the general rate,… Read More July 2025: Jobs and Hints of Recession
Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor. Harper Business, 2025 by Trudy Goldberg Economist Juliet Schor and her colleagues conducted the largest trial of the reduced work week ever to take place—245 organizations, eighty-seven hundred employees, in eight countries on four continents.… Read More Book Review: Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor
Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand “meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages” for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one. Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled. Join the Center for Economic Policy Research’s webinar… Read More 8/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar > Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?
July 2025 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.2%* [ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.7% African American 7.2% Hispanic 5.0% Asian¹ 3.9% Persons with a disability¹ 10.0% Men 20 years and over 4.0% Women 20 years and over 3.7% Teens (16-19… Read More Unemployment Data-JULY 2025
By Frank Stricker July 12, 2025 The quick take on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation for June is that there were positives but also many negatives and red flags. The unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 4.1%. A broad conclusion about… Read More The Employment Report for June 2025: Not Much Change Yet
