And construction employment tracked down ever so slightly to 5.79 million workers in April, according to the preliminary data.
Let's extend this chart out:Mr Klein is arguing that another labour market path was possible, in which employment tracked lower from 1999 to 2003 and presumably also from 2003 to 2006, but in which "sustainable" employment growth eventually took over sufficient to deliver, cumulatively, more overall employment during this period.
For those on an employment track -- a majority -- let the clock continue to tick, as long as they are moving forward in concrete ways.
I totally understand the whole hypocrisy allegation against Whitman--I even had a lengthy opportunity the other day to discuss that issue with her directly on the radio--but, that aside, I submit that the economic problems asphyxiating this state are far more important and, therefore, far more in need of exploration and illumination than is Meg Whitman's employment track record.
In their terrific book, "Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy," Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology note that for the last two centuries it happened that productivity, median income and employment all tracked each other nicely.
For Mr. Nager, the company's lawyer, the challenge lay in the fact that in its core definition of discrimination, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act tracks exactly the language of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted three years earlier to forbid employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex.
And this is probably an underestimate--many institutions use multiple classifications for postdocs and have no employment-tracking system, making it very difficult to get an accurate count.
And this is probably an underestimate--many institutions use multiple classifications for postdoctoral researchers and have no employment-tracking system, making it very difficult to get an accurate count.
Before the start of the sequester on March 1, employment at private companies heavily dependent on military spending had been more closely tracking employment in the rest of the economy, though the numbers were somewhat uneven.
Every one of them will produce, internally, detailed weekly reports tracking employment outcomes against carefully modelled targets.
An internal Bloomberg review conducted after Goldman Sachs complained last month that a reporter had inquired about a partner's employment status after tracking the executive on UUID, revealed that "several hundred" reporters had used the technique.
