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TDdemdifference.bsky.socialOct 17, 2024 4:22pm

For numbers for #NumbersDay bsky.app/profile/demd...

TDdemdifference.bsky.socialOct 17, 2024 4:20pm

BREAKING: Real Wages Rise Again! Today, the Labor Dept. reported that median weekly wages rose substantially faster than inflation (4.2% v. 2.6%) between the 3rd quarter of 2023 and the 3rd quarter of 2024. This is the 8th straight quarterly report showing YoY real wage gains.

Economic News Release
Usual Weekly Earnings Summary

For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Thursday, October 17, 2024 USDL-24-2143

USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS
THIRD QUARTER 2024

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 120.8 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,165 in the third quarter of 2024 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 4.2 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a
gain of 2.6 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.

ASaaronsojourner.orgOct 17, 2024 1:24pm

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ASaaronsojourner.orgOct 10, 2024 11:47am

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JVjohnvoorheis.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 9:49pm

As the millennials say, I did a thing (wrote a report on real time analysis of Milton) t.co/4j3i4omIUV

ASaaronsojourner.orgOct 8, 2024 2:56pm

A great follow for real time economic analysis! #NumbersDay

PReconparker.bsky.socialOct 8, 2024 4:29am

Hi #econsky! 👋 I just joined. Would be great to connect with economists and strategists interested in the labor market / monetary & fiscal policy / housing / forecasting / etc… So far, all I see are cat and anime pics on my thread - would be nice to have it filled with charts and research instead!

BCbencasselman.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 1:33pm

If you adjust for the aging of the population, labor force participation returned to its 2000-era peak in September. That's something many economists thought would never happen. #NumbersDay

BCbencasselman.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 12:31pm

The U.S. economy added 254,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent. #NumbersDay www.bls.gov/news.release...www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10...

Employment Situation Summary - 2024 Q03 Results

LFleofeler.comOct 1, 2024 3:22pm

JOLTS: The ratio of job openings to unemployed workers remains about the same as last month (up to 1.13 from 1.08 previously). The labor market is cooling but levels aren't worrisome. #NumbersDay #EconSky

BCbencasselman.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 2:11pm

There were 8 million job openings on the last day of August, up slightly from July. But the trend is very clearly down. The openings rate is at more or less its prepandemic peak. #NumbersDay

BCbencasselman.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 2:07pm

Sort of a mixed bag of a #JOLTS #NumbersDay

ASaaronsojourner.orgSep 27, 2024 4:33pm

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JPjosephpolitano.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 7:21pm

To understand how GOATed the US economy has been, consider that today's revisions have increased real GDP per capita growth by 1.2%, from 8.2% to 9.4% That 1.2% increase alone is more growth than the UK, Germany, and Canada have seen, and is almost on par with France (1.5%)