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Employment Report: 467K Jobs Lost, 9.5% Unemployment Rate
calculatedriskblog.com - 7/2/2009
Employment Report: 467K Jobs Lost, 9.5% Unemployment Rate
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From the BLS : Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in June (-467,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors, with large ...
ritholtz.com - 7/2/2009
Explaining Non Farm Payroll Analysis
— ritholtz.com — Its tine for everyone’s favorite monthly data point, Non-Farm Payrolls . For those of you who are... relatively new to the site, here is a brief description of how our analysis has evolved over time. Following the 2001 Recession, the economic ... (more) Explaining Non Farm Payroll Analysis

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Unemployment: Stress Test Scenarios, Diffusion Index, Weekly Claims
calculatedriskblog.com - 7/2/2009
Unemployment: Stress Test Scenarios, Diffusion Index, Weekly Claims
— calculatedriskblog.com — Note: earlier Employment post: Employment Report: 467K Jobs Lost, 9.5% Unemployment Rate . The earlier post includes... a comparison to previous recessions. Stress Test Scenarios Click on graph for larger image in new window. This graph shows the ... (more) Unemployment: Stress Test Scenarios, Diffusion Index, ...

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Unemployment Rate and Part Time Employees
calculatedriskblog.com - 7/6/2009
Unemployment Rate and Part Time Employees
— calculatedriskblog.com — The following article suggests that the large number of part time workers will slow any labor recovery:... ‘I don’t need to hire anybody new. I need to work my existing workers more.’ That seems to make sense, but I wondered if it has been true in ... (more) Unemployment Rate and Part Time Employees

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The Big Picture:  Unemployment Measures; Job Losses (%) Post-WWII Recessions

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Unemployment Measures; Job Losses (%) Post-WWII Recessions
The Big Picture — Jake at Econompic points us to this chart of U3 versus U6: > > And here is an update of the chart we first ran back in February of this year (here, and here) > via Calculated Risk ...

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