Applications for unemployment benefits fell again last week as America’s labor market continues to hum along despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and bring down inflation that’s still higher than optimal
Applications for unemployment benefits fell again last week as America’s labor market continues to hum along despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and bring down inflation that’s still higher than optimal
Up, I think, is a bit of an overstatment. Here’s the US Dep’t of Labor statistics, updated as of July: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf. The trend is pretty aggressively down over the last few months.