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The Labor Department reported that the headline unemployment rate dropped to a 50-year low and that nonfarm payrolls grew more than expected.
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Heard Editors, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023
The chart shows the trajectory of employment, the monthly growth in nonfarm payrolls, during the recession that started in December 1973.
—Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 19 Dec. 2022
Texas hit a new employment high in September for the 11th consecutive month, with nonfarm payrolls reaching 13.6 million.
—Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
Back in 2008, the US Centers for Disease Control calculated that crop workers die from heat stress at 20 times the rate of nonfarm employees.
—Tom Philpott, Wired, 6 Aug. 2022
Total nonfarm employment statewide topped 13.6 million in October, the 12th consecutive month that Texas has set a record high for that metric.
—Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
As pressure from the Fed’s war on inflation builds, nonfarm payrolls will begin shrinking early next year, translating to a loss of about 175,000 jobs a month during the first quarter, the bank said.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
In the 1950s, when as many as one-third of U.S. nonfarm workers were union members, annual inflation averaged about 2%.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
Productivity, or nonfarm business employee output per hour, decreased at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter after falling at a 7.4 percent pace in the previous three months, Labor Department figures showed Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
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Heard Editors, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023
The chart shows the trajectory of employment, the monthly growth in nonfarm payrolls, during the recession that started in December 1973.
—Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 19 Dec. 2022
Texas hit a new employment high in September for the 11th consecutive month, with nonfarm payrolls reaching 13.6 million.
—Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
Back in 2008, the US Centers for Disease Control calculated that crop workers die from heat stress at 20 times the rate of nonfarm employees.
—Tom Philpott, Wired, 6 Aug. 2022
Total nonfarm employment statewide topped 13.6 million in October, the 12th consecutive month that Texas has set a record high for that metric.
—Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
As pressure from the Fed’s war on inflation builds, nonfarm payrolls will begin shrinking early next year, translating to a loss of about 175,000 jobs a month during the first quarter, the bank said.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
In the 1950s, when as many as one-third of U.S. nonfarm workers were union members, annual inflation averaged about 2%.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
Productivity, or nonfarm business employee output per hour, decreased at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter after falling at a 7.4 percent pace in the previous three months, Labor Department figures showed Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
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First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined above
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