This week is a big week for inflation data: The Labor Department is putting out its latest consumer price index on Wednesday, the producer price index comes out Thursday and the import price index ...

Nonfarm productivity increased 1.2% in the last quarter of 2024 from the prior quarter, lagging the +1.8% consensus and slowing from the +2.3% rise in Q3 (revised from +2.2%), according to Bureau of ...

Nonfarm productivity rose 2.2% Q/Q in Q3, reflecting no change from the preliminary estimate and matching the consensus estimate. That compares with the Q2's revised estimate of +2.5% in Q2 2024, the ...

U.S. labor productivity plunged 7.5% during the first quarter of 2022, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure marks the largest quarterly decline ...

The Department of Labor reported Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment bumped up slightly last week: 226,000 filed new claims, up from 219,000 the week before. And during that week before — ...

Inflation, labor shortages, and debt. Those factors, combined with others, slow down the U.S. economy to a surprising degree. In fact, successfully combating them to boost productivity in the United ...