Economy

Our nation’s infrastructure is set to get a massive funding boost courtesy of the Federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act and bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In their new report entitled Hard-to-Fill Infrastructure Jobs: A Challenge to Building Our …

September holds mixed messages We begin the fall season on a not entirely positive note. Though job listings are still increasing—active job listings were up 2.7% last month, that’s an increase from the previous month’s 0.6%—the news isn’t all sunshine …

This past May, following a disappointing jobs report for April, we posited that the job market was not afflicted with a labor shortage but rather a wage shortage. In subsequent months, we expanded our argument by laying out the case …

It appears we’re closing the summer on a hot streak as overall job listings continued to rise in August for the 6th month in a row. While the trajectory is positive, the pace of growth continues to slow with August …

There are seemingly endless ways to compare the job markets during the recoveries following the Great Recession and the Global Pandemic, but we’ve reached a particularly noteworthy intersection following July’s jobs report from the BLS. Last month marked the 15th …

We’ll post updated charts later this week when we get our data for August, but we wanted to post the two charts below that show total (below) and new job openings (bottom) in goods and services industries between January 2020 …

Temperatures weren’t the only thing rising in July, as sky high summer heat was accompanied by increasing job listings, with the month up 4.6%. This follows the slowdown observed in June where listings dipped by almost 1%. Reflecting on job demand changes …

It’s most definitely Deja vu all over again. The re-emergence of heated debates these days around full-employment, NAIRU, Fed policy, tapering, and the mirage of bipartisanship in a Senate that still includes Mitch McConnell, not to mention reading the symbols …

As the 2021 labor market continues to distinguish itself from the rollercoaster of 2020, LinkUp’s job listing data provides a unique view into the state of the US economy. In the most recent edition of our Economic Indicators Report, we …

In our Non-farm Payroll forecast earlier this month, we highlighted the yawning chasm of the bid-ask spread between employers and employees these days and touched on some of the structural mechanics of the job market in the context of how …