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Employers

July Jobs Report Reveals Lowest Unemployment Rate in 50 Years

NAFCU (08/08/2022) The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the July Jobs Report on Friday, which revealed that the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 percent in July, a fifty-year low. NAFCU Chief Economist and Vice President of Research Curt Long analyzed the report in a new NAFCU Macro Data Flash report. “The July jobs report was a summer scorcher, and will likely be seen as uncomfortably warm for policy makers focused on

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Employers

Staffing Employment Grows Year-to-Year

American Staffing Association (06/16/22) Q2 2022 Revenue Expected to Rise 10% U.S. staffing sales reached $37.4 billion—a new first-quarter high—while first-quarter staffing jobs grew 1.6% year-to-year, according to data released by the American Staffing Association’s Staffing Employment and Sales survey. Overall, staffing companies employed an average of 2.7 million temporary and contract workers per week in the first quarter of 2022. On a quarter-to-quarter basis, staffing employment

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