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...
by Administrator | Aug 15, 2018 | No Spin News
This is my second-most favorite way to present the data. We eliminate the noise by using a 12-month moving average. With the series smoothed out we can then add some other aspects to the chart that help us with the claim about this being the readings we get during the...
by Administrator | Aug 13, 2018 | No Spin News
Improving the employment situation in the manufacturing sector has been one of the highest priorities of the current administration. This chart suggests that they are succeeding in those efforts. The 32,000 person gain in July was spearheaded by a 13,100 rise in...
by Administrator | Aug 10, 2018 | No Spin News
The pace of hiring in health care continues to move ahead on a broad front with most of the categories of ambulatory care as well as hospitals showing gains in July. Last year, the monthly average gain in employment in the first seven months in this sector was 24,242...
by Administrator | Aug 8, 2018 | No Spin News
The next level analysis that we conduct is our look at the major sectors of employment. And we start by comparing the current level of activity to what it was in the same period a year ago. Why? Because as we shall see, the year-over-year comparisons of the various...