Unemployment rate lowest in nearly 3 years. WASHINGTON – The U.S. job market strengthened in the second half of 2011 and added 200,000 jobs in December while the unemployment rate fell to 8.5% from a revised 8.7% a month earlier. December's biggest growth came in transportation, especially courier services that staffed up for the holidays, and in health care and manufacturing, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "It would have been even better without the drag from Europe," said John Canally, economic strategist at LPL Financial, a stock brokerage firm in Boston. "The Europe situation created uncertainty, and uncertainty was used as a reason not to hire until now. " It was an even stronger finish to the year than economists had forecast. They had forecast that employers added a net 150,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by Factset.
They also had predicted that the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.7% from November's 8.6%, which was the lowest rate since March 2009. Those trends continued in December. Employment Situation Summary. Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-15-2125 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, November 6, 2015 Technical information: Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 * cesinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/ces Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- OCTOBER 2015 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 271,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and construction.
Household Survey Data Both the unemployment rate (5.0 percent) and the number of unemployed persons (7.9 million) were essentially unchanged in October. Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons were down by 0.7 percentage point and 1.1 million, respectively.
Poverty threshold - Charles Ayoub. Statistics on Patents. WIPO cooperates with intellectual property (IP) offices from all over the world to provide you with up-to-date IP statistics. Statistical Data The WIPO IP Statistics Data Center is the on-line service enabling access to WIPO's statistical data. The WIPO Statistical Country Profiles provide IP information for around 190 countries.
The zip file provides IP statistics prior to 1980. Statistical Publications World Intellectual Property Indicators, 2012 edition [Download report, tables and graphs] The 2012 edition of WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators provides a wide range of indicators covering 2011 statistics for the following areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms and plant varieties.
Authors: Economics and Statistics Division, WIPOPublication date: December 2012Number of pages: 186Languages: EnglishWIPO Publication n°: 941 WIPO IP Facts and Figures, 2012 edition [Download report] [Download data & graphs] [Archive] Why Poverty Doesn't Rate - Economics. The Census Bureau last week released its latest estimate of the U.S. poverty rate--the country's most important official statistic on domestic want and deprivation. The figure was sobering, signaling short-run stagnation and deterioration over the past generation. The 2005 poverty rate of 12.6 percent barely budged from the previous year's number, and was substantially higher than the 11.1 percent level registered back in 1973, the lowest on record.
No less disturbing, the official measure indicates that a greater portion of families and children live in poverty in America today than three decades ago. The results seem to suggest a prolonged failure of national policies to address poverty in the United States. The nation's poverty indicator first emerged in 1965, when the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty.
But much more than prices has changed since 1965--and the government's poverty measures have failed to adapt to and recognize the new conditions. Debt Ceiling Debate Data Point: Surprise, U.S. Debt is Falling. Is debt in the U.S. rising or falling? If you have been following the fight in Washington about the debt ceiling and whether the US should be allowed to borrow more money, the answer probably seems obvious.
But the obvious answer, as usual, is wrong. The U.S., when you look at our overall debt, is in a much better position that the wranglings in Washington suggest. What’s more, it appears that the U.S. is the only country with a so-called developed economy that’s overall debt picture has actually improved since the financial crisis. Here’s why: The research arm of the consulting firm McKinsey recently took a look at the data on debt levels in a number of countries with so-called developed economies. (LIST: What to Expect When the Recession Ends) Of course, the reason our overall level of debt has been falling is because of individuals and not government.
(MORE: Americans in Debt: Just How Bad Off Are We) The World Factbook. American Economy - Data for 2008. Overview: The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $47,400. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace.
US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II.