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Retail trade employment saw a 20K increase in April 2024 – a continued upward trend from the last 12 months. Check out the highlights from the latest @BLS_gov #JobsReport: www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm pic.twitter.com/1eqCyNdGdW
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These are the April unemployment rates by race. These figures change frequently month-to-month and the department tracks the trends. www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm #JobsReport pic.twitter.com/kUTItt4OKu
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Jason Furman
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Pretty much a goldilocks job report. 175K jobs is respectable at any time and in the context of strong prior months so a ~250K monthly average even more so.
Unemployment ticked up to 3.9%.
Earnings growth slowed.
Most reassuring data for the Fed in the last 2+ weeks. pic.twitter.com/5G1iCTy3Cz
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Nick Bunker
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Interesting divergence from recent trends in the labor force flows data.
The job-finding rate ticked up, while there was a surge in the share of employed workers moving into unemployment. pic.twitter.com/VzCAimdLBi
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