Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2018 Report Edition
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Prime-age employment increased to 79.7 percent, its highest level since the Great Recession.
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Wage growth increased to 3.1 percent, but is still low enough to caution against tightening monetary policy.
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Despite a tightening labor market on many metrics, the long-term unemployment rate is unchanged over the past month.
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Care work jobs like education and health continue to have the strongest job growth, but construction and manufacturing are also converging back to pre-Recession levels.
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Workers previously out of the labor force are re-entering at higher rates, continuing the long-term upward trend.
