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U.S. regions with more unauthorized immigrant workers experienced declines in new housing construction (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 31, 2026
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A large-scale deportation would shrink the U.S. economy, with particular harm to some states (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 31, 2026
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Transfer income has fallen faster than other components of U.S. income over the past 3 months (opens in a new tab)
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Income declines over the past 3 months and the past 6 months are higher for low-income U.S. households (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2026
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Personal Income is now declining year-over-year, a possible warning sign for the economy (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2026
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U.S. income shares changed little due to the pandemic, with top decile and bottom half households making gains (opens in a new tab)
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In a reversal of 21st century trends, wages grew faster for lower-income U.S. households in the pandemic era (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 24, 2026
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Realized capital gains are highly volatile, leading to large swings in the top 0.1% U.S. income thresholds (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations May 26, 2026
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Real U.S. income gains have been falling for successive generations (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. income growth for the middle class slowed substantially in the past four decades (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations May 13, 2026
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Income growth rates used to be similar along the income distribution, but that changed in the 1980s (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations May 13, 2026
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The middle is further from the top than it used to be—and the gap is growing (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations May 13, 2026
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U.S. income at the middle is growing and is higher today than it used to be (opens in a new tab)
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Population weights reveal that the distribution of cost and benefits of policies are skewed differently (opens in a new tab)
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Workers in the Midwest and South tend to work in more tariff-exposed industries (opens in a new tab)
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Workers with less than a college education are overrepresented in the most tariff-exposed industries (opens in a new tab)
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White, Hispanic, and noncitizen men are overrepresented in the most tariff-exposed industries (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. manufacturing is particularly vulnerable to tariff costs (opens in a new tab)
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AI exposure is greatest among higher-paid workers regardless of age, race and education status (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Oct 22, 2025
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Asian American and highly educated workers are most exposed to AI (opens in a new tab)
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The overall U.S. tax system today is only mildly progressive (opens in a new tab)
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Racially resentful White Americans are more opposed to progressive taxation (opens in a new tab)
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Almost half of rural U.S. counties are at risk or distressed (opens in a new tab)
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Unemployment risk significantly affects the probability of voting for the far right (opens in a new tab)
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Europe’s far-left and far-right parties have room to grow in the future (opens in a new tab)
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Eastern European nations are far more vulnerable to right-wing populist appeals (opens in a new tab)
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Nostalgic deprivation is widespread among citizens of European nations (opens in a new tab)
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Cutting government transfer programs has broad effects on the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)
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Cutting government transfer programs has broad effects on the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 12, 2025
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The economic effects of austerity policies under a nonreactive Federal Reserve – Final (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 12, 2025
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The economic effects of austerity policies under a reactive Federal Reserve (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 12, 2025
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Recessions coincide with periods of higher policy uncertainty – updated (opens in a new tab)
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States dependent on federal grants tend to be poorer or more rural (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 7, 2025
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With capital gains, the share of income earned by the wealthiest households went up 5 percentage points since 2002 (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jul 14, 2025
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Pure capital gains are highly volatile and can turn negative in recessions (opens in a new tab)
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In some U.S. congressional districts, cuts from the reconciliation bill are bigger than multiple local industries combined (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jul 10, 2025
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act disproportionately harms lower-income Americans (opens in a new tab)
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Wages have grown much slower in the 21st century than in previous eras of the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2025
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Wages have grown relatively similarly across income deciles, while business and asset income is strongly skewed to the wealthiest households (opens in a new tab)
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Wages are the slowest-growing component of U.S. income for households across the income distribution (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2025
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Wages and government transfers are the primary source of income for most U.S. households (opens in a new tab)
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The upper-middle class has lost income share, while low-income and extremely wealthy households have grown their share of income (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2025
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U.S. inequality has decreased slightly since 2000, with the upper-middle class seeing the weakest gains (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2025
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U.S. income inequality dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic before returning to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 25, 2025
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Millions of Americans, including children, will lose nutrition assistance due to proposed SNAP cuts – updated (opens in a new tab)
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Reducing IRS funding by half could cost the same amount of the Republican budget bill in noncompliance increases (opens in a new tab)
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No tax on tips or overtime provisions cost less than the more regressive proposals in the Republican tax bill (opens in a new tab)
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Americans have heard more about the no tax on tips and overtime provisions of the Republican bill than its more regressive provisions (opens in a new tab)
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Many of the wealthiest U.S. individuals do not pay any estate taxes (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 23, 2025
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16 million Americans will lose health care coverage if the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act becomes law (opens in a new tab)
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The costliness of nonwage job amenities explains two-thirds of the gender wage gap in the United States (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. women workers at all levels of compensation are more concentrated in jobs with predictable schedules, which pay less, than men (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 10, 2025
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The anti-instrument method of estimating the cost of nonwage amenities produces the most plausible results (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 10, 2025
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Returns to job characteristics impact the gender wage gap, but these returns have changed over time (opens in a new tab)
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Different work activities affect wages for U.S. women and men differently, and these effects have changed over time (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jun 4, 2025
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Different skills affect wages for U.S. women and men differently, and these effects have changed over time (opens in a new tab)
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The gender gaps in the importance of job characteristics have not changed much since 2003 (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. employment is now less concentrated in male-dominated jobs than it was in 2003 (opens in a new tab)
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The U.S. hourly gender wage gap has narrowed since 2003 – updated (opens in a new tab)
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Different abilities affect wages for U.S. women and men differently, and these effects have changed over time – updated (opens in a new tab)
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Small adjustments in response to tariffs could push U.S. unemployment up slightly in the short run but become more meaningful the longer they remain in place (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations May 9, 2025
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The China trade shock caused a steep decline in manufacturing employment in trade-exposed local labor markets in the United States (opens in a new tab)
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The China trade shock’s effect on total U.S. employment and the employment-to-population ratio in the first two decades the 21st century (opens in a new tab)
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The China trade shock increased places’ employment in retail, health care, and education in the first two decades of the 21st century (opens in a new tab)
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The China trade shock increased places’ employment in low-paying jobs in the first two decades of the 21st century (opens in a new tab)
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U.S.-born White noncollege men lost labor market share in trade-shocked places in the first two decades of the 21st century (opens in a new tab)
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Professional licenses and telework are more common in occupations in which actual wages exceed wages predicted by job-content measures (opens in a new tab)
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European democracies have seen a surge of support for right-wing populism in the past decade (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. unemployment remains below projections despite recent participation-driven increases (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. labor force participation continues to be strong despite demographic headwinds (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. payroll employment has surpassed CBO projections (opens in a new tab)
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The U.S. labor market has cooled since last year but remains strong (opens in a new tab)
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The number of U.S. taxable estates has declined due to the larger estate tax exemption (opens in a new tab)
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Under current U.S. law, high-income earners pay most of the federal estate tax (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. wealth disparities have widened substantially over the past 35 years (opens in a new tab)
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Wealth is more concentrated in the United States than in other economically advanced nations (opens in a new tab)
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A majority of assets are owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of U.S. households (opens in a new tab)
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Real wage growth has been slow for much of the past 50 years (opens in a new tab)
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There is little upward pressure on bottom half of U.S. wage growth (opens in a new tab)
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When churn is lower, nominal wage growth tends to be lower (opens in a new tab)
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Nominal wage growth and inflation have declined since 2022 (opens in a new tab)
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Wage gains associated with changing jobs have declined over the past year (opens in a new tab)
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The U.S. labor market has cooled slightly over the past year (opens in a new tab)
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Job openings and labor turnover survey data point to a more stable U.S. labor market (opens in a new tab)
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Wage growth has slowed more for lower-range workers but remains faster than usual (opens in a new tab)
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Wage growth is slowing across a range of measures (opens in a new tab)
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Black SNAP applicants report greater stress as learning costs increase (opens in a new tab)
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Some demographic groups felt less stigma than others in the SNAP application process (opens in a new tab)
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Most SNAP applicants feel respected by program staff when applying (opens in a new tab)
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The SNAP application is more stressful for some demographic groups than others (opens in a new tab)
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Most applicants find applying for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to be stressful (opens in a new tab)
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Children from higher-wealth families are more upwardly mobile (opens in a new tab)
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Higher UI benefits during recessions have mostly come from ad-hoc congressional allocations, not the Extended Benefits system (opens in a new tab)
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Workers of color tend to be concentrated in states with less generous UI benefits (opens in a new tab)
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States vary enormously in the percent of unemployed workers who receive benefits and the size of benefits (opens in a new tab)
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During the pandemic, White workers were far more likely to receive Unemployment Insurance benefits than other workers (opens in a new tab)
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Backlash to the Great Migration reduced Black upward mobility in northern U.S. cities (opens in a new tab)
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Historically, there has been an inverse relationship between union density and income inequality in the United Sates (opens in a new tab)
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White and Asian American children in the bottom half of the socioeconomic status are more likely to move up than their peers of color (opens in a new tab)
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Racial gaps in income and net worth are large even at similar levels of education (opens in a new tab)
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Maternal mortality rose for all race and ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic (opens in a new tab)
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In 2023, real wage growth outpaces similar points, and even peaks, of prior recoveries (opens in a new tab)
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The labor force participation rate for U.S. prime-age workers remains at its highest level in two decades (opens in a new tab)
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Personal loan delinquency is low or within normal levels for all major loan types (opens in a new tab)
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Production and nonsupervisory workers now have higher real wages than the pre-pandemic trend (opens in a new tab)
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The gap in unemployment between White and Black workers is at historic lows (opens in a new tab)
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Wage growth for 16- to 24-year-old workers is higher than at any point in the previous expansion (opens in a new tab)
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Unemployment for 16- to 24-year-old workers is at low levels not seen in decades (opens in a new tab)
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Real U.S. GDP now exceeds pre-pandemic projections by the Congressional budget Office (opens in a new tab)
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The Great Recession of 2007-2009 caused permanent damage to U.S. GDP (opens in a new tab)
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Distributional weighting in regulatory cost-benefit analysis reflects state of the science and would even the playing field for low-income Americans (opens in a new tab)
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The Biden administration’s new regulatory cost-benefit guidelines encourage agencies to better account for inequality (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jan 31, 2024
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Auten and Splinter assign more and more in-kind transfers to the bottom 50 percent’s income (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jan 9, 2024
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Fiscal income, the income that is visible in individual tax data, has become much more concentrated (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Jan 9, 2024
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Auten and Splinter find lower levels of top 1% income share over time when compared to Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (opens in a new tab)
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SNAP receipt increases long-run rates of employment among applicants who worked steadily prior to application (opens in a new tab)
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SNAP receipt does not affect rates of employment among applicants with weak pre-application labor force attachment (opens in a new tab)
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SNAP receipt does not affect rates of employment in the broad group of working-age applicant (opens in a new tab)
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The U.S. has had the strongest growth of any G7 country since the beginning of the pandemic (opens in a new tab)
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More Black men workers and Latino workers are employed now than prior to the coronavirus pandemic (opens in a new tab)
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Employment recovered much more quickly after the COVID-19 recession than after previous recessions (opens in a new tab)
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Investment in care infrastructure could yield twice as many new jobs as investment in physical infrastructure alone (opens in a new tab)
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Harmonizing Unemployment Insurance rules to be more generous significantly shrinks the U.S. racial wage replacement gap (opens in a new tab)
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Firearm injuries cost more than twice as much as other hospital care in the United States (opens in a new tab)
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Average income growth no longer represents the fortunes of most Americans (opens in a new tab)
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Public-sector employment tends to recover more slowly from economic downturns (opens in a new tab)
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Nominal wage growth is stronger than prior to the pandemic, but is decelerating (opens in a new tab)
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Employment is near or above pre-recession levels in many industries (opens in a new tab)
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The unemployment rate for Black workers remains higher than for other groups (opens in a new tab)
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Employment rates for U.S. prime-age workers are now above their pre-pandemic levels (opens in a new tab)
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When there are fewer unemployed workers for every job opening, workers tend to have more bargaining power (opens in a new tab)
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When the labor market is strong, job openings tend to yield fewer hires (opens in a new tab)
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