Molly Moseley
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 …
Molly Moseley
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? …
Toby Dayton
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 …
Nic Gustafson
There is a strong narrative present in today’s media that the $600 a week provided by the CARES Act is creating a disincentive for Americans to return to work. This narrative can be seen in Washington as politicians argue over …
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 …
Toby Dayton
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 …
Toby Dayton
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 …
It’s a powerful indication of the insanity plaguing the headlines these days that a global pandemic that has, so far, claimed over 100,000 lives in the U.S., put at least 40 million people out of work, driven unemployment to depression-era …
As we wrote last week, we’ve seen a relatively sharp increase in new job openings across most of the country since the end of April. Through May 17th, new job listings on company and employer websites throughout the country had …
As states begin relaxing lockdown restrictions and opening up their economies, we are analyzing our job market data closely for indications of how quickly the labor market might recover at a local and national level. We’ll be posting more detailed …
