TED: The Economics Daily

Individuals born in the early 1980s were employed for 76 percent of all the weeks from ages 18 to 36. They were unemployed for 5 percent of those weeks and not in the labor force (neither working nor seeking work) for 19 percent. As a group, individuals with higher educational attainment were employed for a larger percentage of weeks and unemployed for a smaller percentage of weeks than individuals with less education.

National Volunteer Month, celebrated in April, honors the nation’s volunteers and encourages people to get out and lend a hand. On an average day in 2022, more than 11 million people volunteered in some manner. Of these, approximately 7 million were women and 4 million were men.

Driver/sales workers are one of many occupations covered by the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). With the latest data release, ORS introduced a new type of estimate, ranges, which expanded the data available for driver/sales workers and other occupations. Let’s look at some ORS estimates, including the new range estimates denoted as striped columns or bars, that can help us understand the occupational requirements for workers.

Prices for U.S. imports, all commodities, increased 0.4 percent over the year ended March 2024, the first 12-month increase since January 2023.