Jobs

Employment conditions remain broadly positive as of April 2019, with 2.6 million jobs created from one year ago (April 2019 State Employment Monitor).  Wages are broadly rising faster than [...]

The following is NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun’s reaction to this morning’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on the employment situation in April: “Fantastic news on the jobs [...]

The following is NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun’s reaction to this morning’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on the employment situation in March: “The job market is quite [...]

Job and wage growth are the economic drivers of housing demand. In this blog, we look at the employment and wage trends in the manufacturing industry and how the strong job growth in [...]

E-commerce continues to challenge brick-and-mortar retailers, especially department stores and sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores. However, the retail trade sector is still facing [...]

The economy is quite strong. Job gains for 91 consecutive months have brought the unemployment rate to its lowest level since the year 2000. The latest unemployment rate of 3.8% in May [...]