News about jobs, US

ICYMI: The unemployment rate in April 2024 was 3.9%. It has been below 4% for more than two years — the longest stretch of unemployment this low in over 50 years. 📉 www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf #JobsReport pic.twitter.com/EkrOF8TH7X

👀 US Union Members See Record Pay Raises, Outpacing Nonunion Workers @Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/us-union-members-see-record-pay-raises-outpace-nonunion-workers

EU #unemployment in March 2024: 🇨🇿2.9% 🇵🇱2.9% 🇸🇮3.1% 🇩🇪3.2% 🇲🇹3.2% 🇳🇱3.6% 🇮🇪4.3% 🇭🇺4.3% 🇧🇬4.4% 🇦🇹4.9% 🇷🇴5.3% 🇸🇰5.4% 🇧🇪5.5% 🇱🇺5.6% 🇭🇷5.9% 🇪🇺6.0% 🇨🇾6.0% 🇵🇹6.5% 🇩🇰6.8% 🇱🇻6.8% 🇮🇹7.2% 🇫🇷7.3% 🇱🇹7.3% 🇪🇪7.8% 🇫🇮7.8% 🇸🇪8.3% 🇬🇷10.2% 🇪🇸11.7% → ℹ️ @EU_Eurostat

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