We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.
We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.
We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.
I don't have the manpower to go out and check to see if people are smoking. We had to cut down on labor as it is because of the loss of business.
I don't expect any of the four ocean ports to have a season that reaches Labor Day. But there is no option in how you deal with those conservation issues. The most important thing is to protect the fish.
The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.
The positive message is that if you strip out the numbers that the Labor Department says are the result of the hurricane, the underlying figures are still pretty decent. That shows that there was some cushion in the economy before Katrina hit.
The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time.
We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.