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Total employment in the US is higher today than it was in 2019.


I'd like to see some data to support that claim. Fed data shows the opposite--the employment ratio is down 1.5% from its 2020 peak. That's at least a million people who've stopped working.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO



This isn't jobs data... This is an estimate, by an unknown source, as to what the employment numbers might be be at the end of 2022. From your site:

> In 2019, around 157.54 million people were employed in the United States. For 2022, an increase by almost 2 million employed people is expected.

Also, do we think this estimate is recent? The US economy has not been adding jobs as expected, and has undershot recent projections by a lot. New hires were 300K short of projections in November[0] and 200K short in December!

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/03/jobs-report-november-2021.ht...

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/07/hiring-falters-in-december-a...




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