Notes from the May 2024 Employment Report
- The U.S. economy added 272,000 jobs during May, the 41th straight month of gains, defying signs of a slowdown and smashing economists’ expectations.
- The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.0%, although remained near 50-year lows. The rate has remained below 4% for more than two years.
- Both the labor force participation rate and the employment-population ratio were little changed.
dbpedia_team: DBpedia athlete-team affiliations
Bipartite network of the affiliations (employment relations) between professional athletes and their teams, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 935627 nodes and 1366466 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
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Notes from the May 2024 Employment Report
- The U.S. economy added 272,000 jobs during May, the 41th straight month of gains, defying signs of a slowdown and smashing economists’ expectations.
- The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.0%, although remained near 50-year lows. The rate has remained below 4% for more than two years.
- Both the labor force participation rate and the employment-population ratio were little changed.
Tired journalism on the radio this morning:
"The Bank of #Canada has one job: to maintain the rate of inflation at 2%."
Maybe read the BoC Act before spouting nonsense? The Bank's mission is set out in the preamble. While inflation - though the word is never used in the law - is part of the story, it's anything but the full story. And, yes, 2% has become convention since the …
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00905 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://
DWP failings, Labour silence
"... a survey of DWP staff... found that two-thirds of them do not have enough time to deal with safeguarding concerns “carefully” and “correctly”, despite years of deaths of benefit claimants linked with DWP’s actions. ...
"... the PCS union... said benefit claimants in vulnerable situations were “falling through the gaps” in the system.
"But Labour made no mention of these concerns in last week’s announcements..."
#LabourParty #DWP
facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://
dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://