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How to use the word labor-market in a Sentence?

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I do think there’s a path to bring down inflation while maintaining what I think all of us would regard is a strong labor market, and the evidence that I’m seeing suggests we are on that path.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The big picture is still favorable for the consumer when you think about their income growth, their balance sheet and the health of the labor market.

Michelle Meyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The labor market continues to remain resilient and is a pillar of strength, the Fed is looking for balance from the labor market, and today’s report is a step in the right direction.

Daniel Zhao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The labor market in March came in like a lion with a banking crisis and more layoffs, and is going out like a lamb with a solid jobs report, the labor market is still strong, but it’s gliding slowly back down to Earth.

Daniel Zhao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the image, for me, that most sums up where we are in the labor market is [the chart in this tweet] by Bloomberg’s chief economist [Michael McDonough], which shows that mentions of job cuts are now higher than mentions of labor shortages in earnings calls, that’s a big reversal after 2021 and 2022 were very much the years of the labor shortage and everyone was talking about how they were struggling to find workers.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the Fed continues to use unemployment as its measure of labor force slack, and thinks they want a 4.5% unemployment rate — to make that happen, the Fed would have to induce net job loss in the labor market, if we go through two months of negative job growth, all bets are off. The Black unemployment rate will easily get to 9% in that scenario.

William Spriggs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[The Fed is] right to be confident that one of the things that’s going to have to happen to get inflation back down to a normal, stable level is to get job growth to a normal, sustainable level, but if the Fed’s actions resulted in a slower labor market, then inflation stayed high — that would be a disaster.

Wendy Edelberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The labor market for the first time looks like it is starting to move into better balance, as well it should with major US corporations announcing cutbacks in the thousands almost nearly every day.

Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The US labor market is definitely cooling off, at this rate, we’d return to a pre-pandemic level of openings by this summer.

Nick Bunker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has read correctly the labor market’s ability to sustain full employment in the face of necessary rate hikes.

Ann Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With labor market conditions poised to cool further amid tighter financial conditions and growing financial market uncertainty likely to dampen households’ willingness to spend, we foresee soft consumer spending growth in coming quarters, recent data on household spending and credit growth indicate that we will likely see a K-shaped consumer spending pattern in 2023, with low- and median-income families exercising more spending restraint, and families at the higher of the income spectrum still spending, albeit with more discretion.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they have money, they’ve shown us they’re going to spend it, i think what’s really going to take the consumer to turn would be a deterioration in the labor market.

Shannon Seery

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recent data suggest that consumer spending isn’t slowing that much, that the labor market continues to run unsustainably hot, and that inflation is not coming down as fast as I thought, if those data reports continue to come in too hot, the policy target range will have to be raised this year even more to ensure that we do not lose the momentum that was in place before the data for January were released.

Christopher Waller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The economy continues to show strength, and interest rates are repricing to account for the stronger than expected growth, tight labor market and the threat of sticky inflation.

Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we continue to get, for example, strong labor market reports or higher inflation reports, it may well be the case that we have to do more and raise rates more.

Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a labor market with 3.5% unemployment in 2018 and ’19, and we had inflation just barely getting to 2%, and wages moving up for most of the people at the lower end of the spectrum, we all want to get back to that place.

Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The labor market is strong because the economy is strong.

Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it suggests that the labor market remains still very strong, and there’s still a lot of wage pressures coming from that strong labor market that Federal Reserve Board needs to contend with if Federal Reserve Board’s going to get inflation back to 2 % on a sustained basis.

Sarah House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a labor market on heat; nobody would have expected a number as monstrous as this, is [Fed Chair Jerome] Powell now wondering why he didn’t push back on the loosening in financial conditions? It’s difficult to see how wage pressures can possibly soften sufficiently when jobs growth is as strong as this, and it’s even more difficult to see the Fed stop raising rates and entertain ideas of rate cuts when there is such explosive economic news coming in.

Seema Shah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would say it is a good thing the disinflation we have seen so far has not come at the expense of a weaker labor market, but I would also say the inflationary process you see under way is really at an early stage.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are people outside of the labor market who aren’t working, and they just simply don’t know how needed they are right now, and I think that’s a function of being a little removed. The world has changed pretty dramatically over the last two to three years, and it’s going to be difficult to show people that the skills they possess are needed right now.

John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If [moderating inflation] holds up and the labor market softens but doesn’t take a very negative turn, then I think consensus is with us, i think the question is what happens if the labor market starts to turn quickly?

Ellen Meade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Combine a strong labor market with a still substantial reserve of excess savings, and you have all the components in place to keep the Fed up at night.

Jason Vaillancourt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While layoffs from high-profile firms make the headlines, plenty of firms are desperate for more workers, especially tech workers. Those workers are in high demand from the auto industry to the Department of Veterans Affairs to not-for-profits, the labor market is still so tight that many tech workers, and workers with other skills, are snapped up well before they need to collect an unemployment check. And they are more likely to be snapped up by smaller firms, which have a much greater demand for workers than major corporations.

Robert Frick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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