by Administrator | Aug 22, 2018 | No Spin News
The BLS breaks out part-time employment into two categories. This one counts the people who have to work part-time. They do so because they can only find part-time work, their employer limits their hours to less than 35 per week either because of slack work or because...
by Administrator | Aug 20, 2018 | No Spin News
The same way as I had to open the scale on nonfarm payrolls, I had to open the scale on this chart. For those of you new to the report, total civilian employment breaks down into full-time and part-time employment. And those partitions are what we are next going to...
by Administrator | Aug 19, 2018 | No Spin News
Let’s wrap up the Establishment Survey, which is the official name for the report that produces all of the payroll numbers, with a couple of notes. The first was that I had to open the scale on this chart, which is something I enjoy doing. The second is that the...
by Administrator | Aug 17, 2018 | No Spin News
The news on wages remains unimpressive, with the line on this chart still struggling to make it past the 3% level. About the only nice thing we can say here is that the line is still in a rising trend mode. Subscribe now!
by Administrator | Aug 16, 2018 | No Spin News
Well, we can shift from using the level of the series to using the year-over-year percent change in the series. This gets us the smoothness we got by doing the averaging of the level as well as a level of consistency that will allow its use to more finely date the...
