Reuters/Rick Wilking - A job seeker talks to an exhibitor at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013.

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Unemployment Likely To Fall to 7.2% in September, With Smaller Gains Going Forward

October 3, 2013, Regis Barnichon

In the latest unemployment rate forecast of the Barnichon-Nekarda model, Regis Barnichon predicts that the decline in the unemployment rate will continue, bringing it to 7.2% for September 2013.

  • In the News

    People are very interested in investing in education right now, partly because it’s a tough job market. They can’t find work, and also to get the jobs they’d like to have, they need more skills.

    November 27, 2012, Karen Dynan, Washington Post
  • In the News

    Leaders must be very intentional in raising the skills and education levels of the fastest-growing portions of our population. Our global competitiveness, our innovative capacities, will hinge on our ability to arm Latinos, Asians and African Americans with the skills and tools they need to thrive in our economy.

    October 10, 2012, Amy Liu, Nashville Business Journal
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    There are a lot of steps between when the raw data are collected and we end up with estimates of the unemployment rate, where either mistakes or purposeful manipulation could affect things. But the people in the Bureau of Labor Statistics are much more loyal to their professional duties than they are to the person who happens to be holding office at the time, and who may not be there in six month’s time.

    October 5, 2012, Gary Burtless, National Public Radio
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    To keep pace with the growth in [America's] working-age population, employers need to add between 90,000 and 100,000 jobs every month.

    June 15, 2012, Gary Burtless, Xinhua