Job Market Data

As we mark half a year of grappling with COVID, one industry that has weathered major turmoil is Food Service. Looking at the data to determine the shape of the industry today, we see both positive and negative signs. Noted …

As Labor Day closed the books on what is arguably the strangest summer in modern history, we decided to take a peek in the rearview mirror and recap what happened over the last 90 days (or was it 90 years? …

Labor demand continued to rise in August, with steady gains in total, new and removed job openings across the U.S. that continued the steady gains seen in June and July.     The LinkUp 10,000, a metric that measures the …

There are few industries that have experienced more change in our pandemic world than healthcare. Since COVID concerns came to light, there has been no shortage of news stories about everything from scandals at the nation’s largest hospitals to AI’s role in reinventing …

As the coronavirus continues to affect nearly every city in the U.S., many are struggling to envision what the road to recovery may look like. Moody’s Analytics sought to provide clarity for that vision in a recent report. They examined …

Once regarded as one of the most highly valued unicorn companies, the last year has been a rough ride for co-working giant WeWork. In an interesting turn of events, Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure revealed in a recent interview that the …

As we’ve highlighted over the past few months, we’re closely tracking new job openings across the U.S. as one of the key, real-time indicators of what’s happening not just in the labor market but the economy as a whole at …

With a shortened holiday week, combined with an early, Thursday Employment Situation release, I will keep this month’s NFP forecast commentary short and get straight to our data. As we’ve been saying for the past two months, labor demand continued …

It’s been a sobering week, to say the least, on a number of fronts. At the same time that daily COVID cases reached record levels nationally, driven mostly by states that opened up aggressively and disregarded health protocols, unemployment claims …

There has been a lot of recent news about large banks; the possibility of cutting dividends and generally not having the best looking balance sheets. As we near the end of June and the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests on …