Everyone wants to be sure; Some of us have. Sometimes, however, the confusion can be its own form of clarity, which is exactly what we should collect from the latest report on the labor market for the United States. It ‘a strange sign of an era where unemployment celebrated as more than one point in the last 80 years as good news, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics ad states that the official unemployment rate for the month of May only 13% over cursed expectations that it would be much worse. Hopes rose that the US economy could recover faster than expected, as you can see the relationship that once again more than 2.5 million people employed as states have begun to reopen in May, and while 21 million people unemployed have little to celebrate, celebrate stock markets are all equal and the rose almost 3% on the news. This is the part full cup half the story. Unfortunately, there are a half empty cup part as well. The way the emergency government structured benefited from the mass unemployment of the shutdown results in a pandemic in creating all kinds of confusion not only for companies and individuals, but also for statisticians to measure employment. Many small businesses to obtain loans under the Paycheck Protection Plan, which were to keep employees on the payroll by the end of June due if the company was open and if these employees are retained if the company does not keep demand from in summer. Many companies “on leave” employees who often keep their health insurance, but to allow it to pick it up, for people who are temporarily generous unemployment benefits authorized to make by Congress. This category does not fundamentally significantly until March, and threw in the measurement of unemployment in confusion. The BLS acknowledged as much in a statement that a “miscalculation” suggested on how those furloughed employees declined to characterize the actual rate of up to 3 percent. 16% of unemployed would be even better than what many expected, but it is, to say the least, historically terrible. So why markets and President Trump are trumpeting the report as evidence that the economic recovery is under way? To a certain extent this is exceeded a classic case of lower expectations. If the bar is low enough, it is always the easier it is to pass. The fact that so many were filed as 40 million people receiving unemployment benefits at some point in the last two months of arrests for unemployment of 25% seen as an omen or more, and at the base of the arrests, it was difficult to introduce myself , people continue to go to work or buy things from seeds live normally again. Then the murder of George Floyd, of protests and riots plunged the country fringe mass into a secondary crisis in several cities. A less terrible than feared snapshot-occupation felt like a relief, even as bad as it was. There are more that take life in many parts of the new country. Las Vegas casino and theme park in Florida are two of the visible signs and while the crowds do not gather, the fact that they are open, a psychological sign of an emergence from the worst impact of the pandemic is still as infection rates and deaths remain constant. And bizarre although the mass protests by millions of people in hundreds of cities across the country also indicated that the fear of the pandemic moved out of the country, which has been a major economic collapse sources. Do not get me wrong: it’s a good thing for the time being, employment and the economy, as the worst of our fear and evil are not so bad in the complex things are as bad as they are. The jobs figures better than expected (even with the error) come in a time poor: We do not know how many of these jobs will be lost if aid programs expire at the end of the month and employers are faced with reduced business. Since many employers continue to pay workers who do not work because companies have been closed, it is likely (though not certain) that July will see a new wave of job losses that have been delayed, not prevented . There is also the problem of how this relationship will shape the political calculus in Washington over a new round of stimulus. The Democratic House bill proposes an additional $3 Katherine spending would not have happened a Republican Senate, but the momentum is building for a more direct help for states to liquid short in Washington, tax revenues have seen evaporation. All government revenue was severely affected by the closures. But now the Republicans in the Senate have responded to the employment relationship as a sign that you may need to spend more. “There are less urgency of a hard thing to beat,” said a major representatives of the GOP. Until things reinforce Wait worse still get jobs and the economy, it will only make it much harder to dig then. The protests also they did the pandemic and employment African-American casualties on race and police brutality, but the undertone and Hispanic much stronger. The unemployment rate in May for African Americans is assigned a number of points higher than that for whites, African Americans were over-represented in many of the jobs eliminated in arrests as a catering service. Black American to die COVID-19 for about three times the speed. uneven treatment by the police is the immediate cause of the protests; unequal suffering from crashes and illness is a powerful fuel. And then there are stocks, rocketed get to the point where they are almost flat for the year. Certainly benefit the rich stocks, but also support the retirement plans of many of these public associations such as teachers and police. But they certainly have little, were the burden of sickness and unemployment at a difficult time buffer for the millions who work in places of lower-level service jobs. There are good reasons for stocks to recover, including solid guarantees of the Federal Reserve, that the financial system will not implode, even if the economy does and signs that something from the trip to the retail sector to a sharper recovery. It would be much worse for all of us, when stocks were falling, companies completely crater, and the collapse of the financial system. But the disjunction between how some of us have done in comparison to others of us has exacerbated the divisions that already there before COVID were to have as our unpredictable and inefficient safety net in times of crisis. The employment relationship is the chrysalis perfect for our present: this shows that we are stronger than we had feared and that overall economic activity, given the pandemic, while proving more resistant also suspend that we do not really know what’s going on that they are actually used, and as. And the report pointed out that in these most of the time we try all people to be vulnerable to a disease, but the economic and health impacts are not evenly spread or be distributed fairly. How to read the employment situation is now the latest Rorschach test, where you sit in this troubled world. If you can analyze its confusing jumble of good news and bad news, you will only see a clear outline of how at this time is actually a challenge. Every crisis can be an opportunity, but we hope that we use this change for the better. Picture copyright by Joe Raedle-Getty Images
The employment relationship in May does not say what we think it says
