Data That Matters December 2021

In the most recent year, companies increased robot purchases by 37%, which may displace 85,000,000 jobs by 2025, but is Continue reading →

Robots Changing Workplace – December 2021

Robots began entering the workplace about sixty years ago. Since then, the trend has been accelerating. Technology advances have helped, Continue reading →

Data That Matters July 2020

Since data collection began, over half a million people (534,000) have died from Covid-19. The US ’employment-population’ ratio dropped to Continue reading →

US GDP Drops 2Q20

Two of Covid’s main effects on the US: ~150,000 dead, so far; second quarter annualized GDP down 32.9%. That’s the Continue reading →

Truly Unemployed US Citizens

The traditional unemployment numbers come with so many asterisks that we’re accustomed to ignore them. While the official US unemployment Continue reading →

Data That Matters June 2020

The US had record unemployment of 3.2 million in March, 6.6 million in April, and in May went from 30 Continue reading →

Record US Unemployment June 4 2020

Check back through some of this blog’s recent posts and find that the US had record unemployment of 3.2 million Continue reading →

Data That Matters May 2020

Over 350,000 dead globally (>100,000 in the US) and a record of over 30 million unemployed in the US, and Continue reading →