Israeli Airstrikes Pound Apartments in Gaza City, Killing Nine, Including Two Women and Two Children

'Low Hire, Ho Fire' Economy Confirmed By Latest Jobless Claims Data The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time remains near multi-decade lows at 206k last week in line with expectations and flat to the prior month... Continuing jobless claims ticked up modestly but remain near two-year lows, below the 1.8mm Maginot line... However, surveys (Conference Board) remain sure it is 'hard to get a job' in this labor market... But, the official data (BLS) shows that the American workforce is growing... So, today's data reinforces the 'low hire, no fire'...

Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy of the commons.”

Global Youth Unemployment And Inactivity Inch Up Again For two years in a row, global unemployment and inactivity among youths aged 15 to 24 has inched up again across world regions. As seen in data by the International Labor Organization, the coronavirus pandemic caused these rates to go up in 2020, but the situation improved again gradually, in 2022 and 2023 falling below pre-pandemic levels. But, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, since then, rates have been on a slow upswing once more, reaching 12.4 percent of youths in the labor force who are unemployed and...