The U.S. labor market is a mess. Data released over the past few
months has been anything but positive and, in some cases, conflicting.
Optimists have pointed at declining headline employment, pessimists have
pointed at declining labor force participation, and somewhere in the
middle, Main Street is looking at low job creation and wondering not
when but if the job market will ever fully recover.
On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that payroll employment rose by 113,000 in January and headline unemployment fell by 0.1 percentage point to 6.6 percent. A consensus estimate showed that economists were anticipating closer to 180,000 new jobs for the month and for the headline rate to remain flat, at 6.7 percent. In a word, the results were weak — weaker than data released by payroll processor ADP on Thursday.
According to ADP’s National Employment Report, following December’s downwardly revised 227,000 job gain, U.S. employers expanded payrolls by 175,000 in the past month. “Cold and stormy winter weather continued to weigh on the job numbers,” said Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, whose firm helps compile the report. Taking a more optimistic tone, Zandi added that “underlying job growth, abstracting from the weather, remains sturdy.”
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On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that payroll employment rose by 113,000 in January and headline unemployment fell by 0.1 percentage point to 6.6 percent. A consensus estimate showed that economists were anticipating closer to 180,000 new jobs for the month and for the headline rate to remain flat, at 6.7 percent. In a word, the results were weak — weaker than data released by payroll processor ADP on Thursday.
According to ADP’s National Employment Report, following December’s downwardly revised 227,000 job gain, U.S. employers expanded payrolls by 175,000 in the past month. “Cold and stormy winter weather continued to weigh on the job numbers,” said Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, whose firm helps compile the report. Taking a more optimistic tone, Zandi added that “underlying job growth, abstracting from the weather, remains sturdy.”
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