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Senate Washington D C DEAR SENATOR O MAHONEY Transmitted herewith is a compilation of basic reference data arranged by State and regional groups This material has been prepared primarily to facilitate such...agencies which furnished data to the BLS is hereby acknowledged Miss Marion Hayes and Hyman L Lewis of the Bureau staff were responsible for the selection and presentation of the data Sincerely yours EDWARD...of unemployment on the various regions of the country One of the first problems in presenting the data was to determine how best to group the States into homogeneous regions The present arrangement1 which...

now For a few important industries which regularly report utilization ratios the latest available data from various Government and private sources are summarized below Percentage utilization of capacity...compared with 84 percent a year earlier and 64 percent in 1940 For housing there are no recent occu pancy data but the scattered information available reinforces the generally unchallenged view that housing is...an incomplete basis which are published later by the agency in revised version after more complete data have become available Ordinarily such revisions are minor and the publication of preliminary estimates...

incomes and their im portance to the national economy 16 Conclusion 18 Appendix The adjustment of survey data on income distribution 18 Dissenting views of Representative Robert F Rich 21 IV LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL...United States had total money incomes of less than 2 000 in 1948 This Conclusion is based upon income data gathered by the Bureau of the Census from a sample of about 25 000 house holds Because some people...third on the basis of data supplied by the Bureau of the Census The Council of Economic Advisers in its Annual Economic Review January 1950 has attempted an adjustment of these data for underreporting of...

quarter of 2007 to 10 percent in the third quarter of 2013 the lowest since we began collecting this data in 1980 It is important to note that these figures represent aggregates and that many middle income...really deals with labor force participation You know it has been troubling in the recovery that that data continues to stay extremely low It real ly masks the accuracy of the unemployment rate Some have tried...of the key age groups looking at the demographic shifts We used 12 month moving average unadjusted data took out seasonality looked at the narrow age groups so we can try to figure out exactly what is going...

prepared an in depth report examining the full scope of long term unemployment including state by state data Among its findings the report shows that long term unemploy ment disproportionately affects workers...underway Second the problem of long term jobless is actually worse than the long term unemployment rate data indicates And third as bad as this problem is its main cause is the ex tremely weak economic recovery...progress is the unprecedented growth in the number of long 9 term unemployed And as bad as this official data appears it underestimates the problem There are almost certainly millions of people that are long...

more deeply into the numbers and have a chance to get a more complete understanding of the employment data I want to make a couple of overall comments first about the econ omy As we know the economy has grown...unemployment in past cases where the unem ployment was allowed to expire So I would like to hear about the data you have Commissioner Groshen on long term unemployment The report also showed that in several states...public service and retirement and for the opportunity to discuss the employment and unemploy ment data that we released this morning I must say that you had very prescient timing in choosing a very interesting...

economic burden is likely much higher A near ban on federal funding on gun violence research hindered data collection for more than two decades Starting in 1996 the Dickey Amendment was added annually to the...

Restore Prosperity Let us not try to re enact that Onion headline So it is quite clear looking at the data as we highlighted in the 2011 Economic Report of the President when I was serving as the Chair that...like to say two things that I believe the data do not suggest are predominantly to explain why growth has not been faster The first is I do not believe the data supports the view that reg ulation or policy...manufacturing has been one of the bright spots It is pretty clear as I said in my testimony if you look at the data the U S has got to shift to a more export oriented growth model And that the biggest export market...

be raised which there is no evidence that that has to happen any time soon based on the infla tion data do you think that the Fed will be affected in their deci sionmaking process by the impacts that raising...price misalignments No matter how many people assert such a link there is no support for it in the data One more issue raised has to do with what happens to price stability if continued QE proves to be...anyone to come up with a relevant historical example let alone a consistent statistical pattern in the data of the mere fact of central banks engaging in large scale asset purchases leading to significant inflation...

About Hearings Annual Reports Democrats Republicans Search Newsroom Members 2025 Joint Economic Report Data and research Employment Update Debt Dashboard Fiscal Update Inflation Update GDP Update Expenditures...Print Facebook Twitter Email Additional Materials State Inflation Tracker September 2022 Methodology Data File Americans are facing the highest inflation rates in decades making it harder for them to afford...within historical norms See our methodology for a full description of our methods and a downloadable data file with a detailed breakdown of inflation costs by state You can find our full analysis for August...