iCIMS, Bloomberg, Federal Reserve alum. Views are my own, likes ≠ my views.
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Econ folks, don't miss out! Most of these Virtual Training Projects are in bioinformatics, but there's a stellar one for working with Raj Chetty's data on social mobility.
Great way to practice R, as well as study inequality.
Research Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students: we’ve posted our Virtual Training Project schedule for January and February 😀.
Topics include: Single-cell Transcriptomics + Lung Cell or Habenula Neuron Characterization...
milrd.org/vtp-projects/
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This is the real problem. Temporary unemployment (de facto furloughs) continue to tumble.
Permanent layoffs still elevated and actually ticked a little higher.
bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…
Nonfarm payrolls grew by only 245k in November, ~half of expected number.
Unemployment rate down to 6.7% from 6.9%, as expected.
OTOH, transportation/warehousing popped, from 62k to 145k. But that's only a partial offset for retail trade.
Job growth is slowing while Black unemployment remains (barely) in the double digits.
Black: 10.3%
Hispanic or Latino: 8.4%
Asian: 6.7%
White: 5.9%
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"The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit." Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835, translated by Henry Reeve ... bit.ly/346yp8K
My latest: October Employment = Beating a Low Bar
The pace of payroll recovery is underwhelming and the details indicate growing cause for concern.
linkedin.com/pulse/october-p… via @LinkedIn
Oct. payrolls: +638k, beating expectations, roughly same as Sept.
Unemployment rate: 6.9%, far below 7.7% expectations
Government payroll changes:
Federal (ex USPS) -138k (primarily Census-related)
State & local education -130k
State & local other +29.6k
Federal U.S. Postal Service -100