New unemployment insurance claims edge up 2% to modest 216K in week ending 3/21. Continuing claims edge down. The low-fire side of the low-hire, low-fire, deer-in-the-headlights labor market continues. #NumbersDay

New unemployment insurance claims edge down 8,000 (4%) in week ending (WE) 3/14 to low 205,000. Continuing claims steady. Low fire side of the low-hire, low-fire, deer-in-the-headlights labor market continues. #NumbersDay

How did U.S. metro areas' exports change from 2024 to 2025? #NumbersDay www.census.gov/foreign-trad...

New unemployment insurance claims stable and moderate in week ending Mar 7. #NumbersDay

From February 2025 to February 2026, real average hourly earnings increased 1.4 percent, seasonally adjusted. #NumbersDay www.bls.gov/news.release...

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New unemployment claims exactly flat in week ending (WE) 2/28 versus prior at modest 213K. No news is good news. #NumbersDay

Friends of BLS urges Congress to provide no less than $754 million for BLS in FY 2027 #EconSky #NumbersDay #FinTwit static1.squarespace.com/static/5bedb...

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New claims for unemployment insurance steady in week ending 2/21. Continuing claims steady too. No evidence of weakening. #NumbersDay

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay

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