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Another Top-10 List — Best Cities to Find a Job in 2018
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. As I frequently say, “There are three groups of people that do not need a job to buy a house: those with gray hair, blue hair or no hair – we call them...
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2018 & 2019 Refinance and Purchase Lending Forecasts as of January 2018
As we economists say, “forecasting is difficult, especially the future.” Fortunately, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the MBA update their quarterly and annual forecasts monthly for residential lending...
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Strong February 2018 Job Growth With 313,000 Net New Jobs Created — Best...
An impressive 313,000 net new jobs were created in February 2018, the largest increase posted since July 2016. This exceeded the consensus estimate by 41 percent among economists polled by...
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State Employment Data February 2018– Updated Bureau of Labor Statistics Data...
The state employment data reported commencing January 2018 are based on an updated and revised data series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). To give an idea of the extent of the change, in...
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State Employment Performance- March 2018
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. The following table shows the top-10 states’ job growth rates for the 12-months ending March 2018 using the 2018 revised data from the BLS (which tweaked...
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Another Top-10 List — U.S. Cities Where Women are Most Successful – 2018
Today, an estimated 57 percent of U.S. women are in the workforce, up from 32 percent in 1948 according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. To identify locales where women have become most...
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164,000 Added Net New Jobs In April 2018, Unemployment Rate Drops from 4.1...
NOTE: The Bureau of Labor Statistics Restated Historical Data – So Many of These Data Points Have Changed From Prior Blogs The U.S. added 164,000 net new jobs in April 2018 and saw the unemployment...
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State Job Growth Rates — 12-Months Ending April 2018
Jobs are everything to the economy – period. The following table shows the percent change in jobs for each state and the District of Columbia for the 12-months ending April 2018. The analysis is based...
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Job Growth in May 2018 posts a 223,000 Net Job Gain, Up 1.61 Percent Versus a...
Jobs are everything. Period. Good news is that things are looking up. The U.S. added 223,000 net new jobs (preliminary) in May 2018, the best May gain since 2015. The unemployment rate dropped to...
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New Single Family Home Sales Jump 14.1 Percent Vs A Year Ago in May 2018,...
New single family residential (SFR) home sales of 689,000 on seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) were up 14.1 percent versus a year ago and 6.7 percent sequentially from April. Other than the...
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Another Top-10 List (20 Actually) — Best (and Worst) Job Growth MSAs and...
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. My favorite economic axiom! The ultimate demand for real estate is driven by people with money in their pockets – hence the focus on jobs. The demand for...
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Job Creation Tops June 2018 Consensus — 213,000 New Jobs Created,...
Jobs are everything. Period. Ongoing good news is that job growth continues to look up. The U.S. added 213,000 net new jobs (preliminary) in June 2018. The unemployment rate edged up from 3.8...
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Mid-Year 2018 State Employment Growth Rates — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. Job growth, however, is not systemic across the country by state. Variability in state job growth is akin to the movie The Good, The Bad and the Ugly....
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Lowest Paying Jobs Requiring a Degree — 2018
For most people, what they majored in at college impacts their earning capacity — lifelong. No doubt college graduates typically (but not always) make more than non-degreed individuals. The median...
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Top US Destinations Where Young Adults are Moving
The U.S. population is always in flux from people moving to new destinations. According to a study of U.S. Census Bureau data, each year: 2 percent of people in the U.S. move to a different county 3...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Cities to Work in Tech 2018
Technology continues to be a market-leading growth industry, attracting the best of the best workers given potential financial rewards. Some of the major technology hubs, however, rank among the most...
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October 2018 U.S. Monthly Job Creation Hits 250,000, Wages Grew 3.1 Percent...
The U.S. added an impressive 250,000 net new jobs in October 2018 (preliminary), with 1.488 million net new jobs year-to-date compared to 1,464 million a year ago for the same period – an increase of...
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State Employment Growth — October 2018 With 2, 5 & 10 Year Performance Summaries
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. Job growth, however, is not systemic across the country by state. Variability in job growth exists across all states at any point in time and also within...
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and Division Job Growth October 2018
When it comes to economic performance, there is no better measure than the creation of net-new jobs. Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. Job growth, however, is not systemic across the country...
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Another Top-10 List — Best (and Worst) Markets for Real Estate Agents 2019
The business of selling houses is not a small-change enterprise. Total existing home sales in 2018 tallied 5.34 million single family houses, condominiums and townhouses that sold at an average...
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