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Current selection: Economy
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs report. All eyes are on the unemployment rate, but how do we arrive at this number? USAFacts explains the national unemployment rate.
America has grown wealthier since the Great Recession. But that growth has been uneven.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 1.6 million gig economy workers in the US, working for services like Uber and TaskRabbit. These workers account for 1% of the US workforce.
Government data shows that while economy-wide measures have been improving since the Great Recession, the retail industry has stagnated, or in the case of brick and mortar stores, even worsened. Online retail, however, has consistently grown for the last two decades.
In 2022, 1.02 million hourly workers —1.3% of all hourly workers — earned at or below the federal minimum wage. That’s the lowest number since data collection began in 1979.
In 1970, there were 381 work stoppages involving more than 1,000 workers each. In 2022, there were 23 similar stoppages.
Median income increased 0.9% while earnings went up 3.4%. The official poverty rate fell to 11.8%, significantly lower than in 2007 before the recession.
The two mortgage giants have portfolios accounting for more than half of the $10 trillion outstanding mortgage debt in America. They have been under federal control since 2008.
The Treasury yield curve provides signals to economists on investor behaviors.
The GDP has grown and jobs have increased over the decade, but that growth hasn’t been uniform across industries and states.
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