Labor Market Insights | CHANGE STATE

Happy September! Are you and your family as gratefully back to school as we are? As much as I lament the premature end to summer, a predictable schedule (child care!) and cooler temps are most welcome.

I hope you are staying cool this summer, despite record temperatures, well, everywhere. What are you cooking, then, when it’s too hot to turn on the stove? A viral pasta salad, perhaps? If you are in need of inspiration, however, I’ve got a recipe for you.

Happy July! Do you have a theme for the summer? For the remainder of this season, I’m determined to have a “slow summer”: trying to delay time a bit after these last few all-too-brief months and instead recall the long, lazy summers of youth.

A Happy Friday to you, here from (unusually) rainy Denver. As ever, we have much to discuss today with a persistently robust jobs report alongside shockwaves running through the financial sector and a brewing federal debt ceiling crisis (!). Never a dull moment, covering the US economy these days.

Spring has sprung! And if you celebrated either Easter, Passover, or Ramadan in the last week (a rare overlap that only occurs once every 33 years or so), then we hope you enjoyed a wonderful holiday with friends and loved ones.

What a time to be covering jobs and the economy! Before you ask, no, we’ll not be talking (much) about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank today. It’s somewhat beyond the scope of what we usually cover in this forum, and I’m sure it’s already dominating your newsfeed in one form or another.

Happy Year of the Rabbit! Covering the economy these past few months has felt quite a bit like chasing Alice down the rabbit hole, or staring doubtfully into a crystal ball. The latest jobs report has had people (myself included) asking: what on earth is going on?

Happy New Year! We hope 2023 has started full of promise and opportunity for you. 2022 was a rather tumultuous year: soaring inflation, an intensely competitive labor market, and new supply chain shockwaves induced by Russia’s war in Ukraine (to name but a few).

Things are slowing down as the year comes to a close and we take time to reflect on the successes of the past 12 months and the opportunities ahead in 2023. We will be closed for the final week of the year to spend time with friends and family …

With the season turning, we hope you are finding a chance to recharge and spend quality time with loved ones as we kick off the festive season. Here at Change State we’re excited about building new connections and creating opportunities to share and learn …