by Administrator | Feb 28, 2019 | No Spin News, Uncategorized
Because of the special adjustments that are made to the January employment figures, it is best to take this piece of news with a grain of salt. The larger issue is whether we have made the cyclical bottom in the Unemployment Rate. Subscribe...
by Administrator | Feb 26, 2019 | No Spin News
The drop we see here has mostly to do with the seasonal nature of a lot of the work in the category. The end of retail shopping season is the major cause of the decline. The trend remains intact. In case you were wondering, the Bureau of Labor Statistics under...
by Administrator | Feb 25, 2019 | No Spin News
As the economy began to slow over the course of 2007, the number of persons reporting that they were working part-time because of slack work increased. This is what is supposed to happen at the start of a recession. Once the recession took hold, the pace at which...
by Administrator | Feb 22, 2019 | No Spin News
Slack Work is the largest component of Part-Time Employment for Economic Reasons. As you see here, the number has been little changed since early 2017. The question now is whether the spike we see in January is due to the adjustments that are made to the January...
by Administrator | Feb 21, 2019 | No Spin News
This is not good news. After coming ever so close to taking out the December 2007 level of total part-time employment, part-time work for economic reasons shot up by 490,000 in January. The full definition of part-time work in this category is: “those who worked 1-34...
