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COMMENTARY
February Marked by Job Loss and Wild Weather
by Matt Sedlar
While overall job growth in February 2019 was slow, employment in construction, manufacturing and mining and logging actually decreased by 0.14 percent or 29,800 jobs. ...
Manufacturing Employment Increased Under Trump but Lags Prerecession Levels
by Alan Barber
Employment in construction, manufacturing and mining and logging increased by 0.4 percent or 74,000 in December of 2018. Forty-one states and the District of Columbia ...
California Leads the Nation in Blue Collar Job Growth in October
by Alan Barber
The 20,859,000 blue collar jobs in the US in October were 13.9 percent of the total nonfarm jobs in the United States, up from 13.7 ...
Upward Revision Results in 14 Consecutive Months of Manufacturing Growth at the National Level
by Alan Barber
Total nonfarm employment was mostly stable around the country, with only three states (North Carolina, -21,900 jobs or a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to ...