Donald Marron has an analysis of this morning's jobs report for June from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mr. Marron makes the point that in the private sector, "The average workweek fell to 33.0 hours in June, the lowest since BLS began tracking the data in 1964. The economy is thus losing jobs and, for the jobs that remain, is losing hours worked." Meanwhile, on a seasonally adjusted basis, as private-sector employment falls, government employment is growing, adding about 200,000 jobs from May to June on a seasonally adjusted basis. Fewer and fewer private-sector jobs supporting more and more government employees is a trend of the sort that President Obama, if he were talking about health-care costs, would call unsustainable.
Fewer Private Jobs, Fewer Hours
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/07/fewer-private-jobs-fewer-hours
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