Molly Moseley
Spring up It is a time of renewed growth—budding trees, blooming flowers, basketball madness, and elevated job openings. We are halfway between the holiday and summer slowdowns (much like October which tends to be another strong month for job growth). Employers are …
It’s been a long while since we were so delinquent in getting our non-farm payroll forecast published, and at the 11th hour there isn’t much time for commentary, so we’ll dispense with it and get straight to LinkUp’s job market …
Rochelle Tishuk
The battle of the music streaming services is heating up! Spotify announced last week that it is expanding its partnership with Hulu. Spotify premium users can now add a free Hulu subscription on top of their $9.99 a month music …
Rochelle Tishuk
Gap Inc. announced this month that it plans to split into “two independently traded companies,” one being Old Navy, and another comprised of Gap and its other brands, including Banana Republic and Athleta. The reason for the split is the …
Molly Moseley
Last week major drug executives sat in the hot seat on Capitol Hill for questioning on the exploding costs of prescription drug prices in the U.S. While their share prices weathered the initial storm, the unwanted spotlight is not going away. We decided …
Toby Dayton
As we wrote in last month’s post regarding our non-farm payroll forecast for January, we were unable to leverage month-end LinkUp data for January since the jobs report fell on February 1st (this is one of the many changes we …
Molly Moseley
While the longest government shutdown in history was estimated to cost the economy $3 billion, our January data shows it has had little to no impact on job openings. Government job openings were flat between December and January, and the Bureau of …
Toby Dayton
With the clock ticking to get our non-farm payroll (NFP) forecast published before tomorrow’s jobs report, I’m forced to keep the commentary brief. While perhaps fortunate for readers, it’s a bit frustrating given the crazy level of fear, uncertainty, and …
Rochelle Tishuk
It’s abundantly clear from our jobs data that job growth across the U.S. during 2018 was disproportionately concentrated in western and mountain states. Digging deeper, it appears this was largely driven by job growth in two major sectors: Construction and Health Care (because where …
By almost every measure, the U.S. labor market vastly exceeded everyone’s expectations in 2018, including our own. Reversing what was largely seen as an incontrovertible continuation of the 3-year decline from a peak of 3.1 million jobs added in 2014, …
