Labor Market

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 …

There’s been a lot of talk swirling around what is arguably the country’s most recognizable name in the automotive industry. Ford recently grabbed headlines after it was revealed that Doug Field, Apple’s head of smart car research, is departing the …

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 …

Another day, another Amazon headline. The world’s largest online retailer is making news again, this time with their recently announced plans to hire more than 125,000 warehouse and transportation workers. Delving into our data we can see a 13% increase …

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 …

The healthcare industry remains in the spotlight, where it has been firmly planted since the pandemic began. Now with the rapid evolution of Delta and the new wave of cases that have come with it, we see story after story …

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 …