Sentences with phrase «continuing decline in unemployment»

This means that the continuing decline in the unemployment rate should begin to translate into stronger inflation pressures.

This has generated a continuing decline in unemployment, bringing the unemployment rate down to around 6 3/4 per cent in recent months, its lowest level for a decade.

Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession in the years ahead, along with a continued decline in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %, or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed in recent decades.

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America is in «disintegration mode,» and unless businesses, government, and the media behave more ethically and more cooperatively, high unemployment levels and economic decline will continue.

U.S. retailers posted weaker than expected sales in December, the Monster job index declined from last month's highs and unemployment claims continued their steady trend lower.

Unemployment has continued its steady decline, hitting 4.1 percent in October, and GDP growth has picked up, gaining 3.0 percent in the third quarter, according to «advance» estimates released in October.

Unemployment, while continuing to decline, has not led to significant increases in wage growth.

«Major declines in house prices and the continuing high level of unemployment are reflected in the various measures of household debt and credit.

Monetary policy: continued investment recovery, unemployment and inflation expectations are key; energy prices less so «The year - on - year rate of increase in the CPI is likely to be about 0 percent for the time being, due to the effects of the decline in energy prices.»

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

UBS: Payrolls & private payrolls +190 k, unemployment down, soft avg hrly earnings We project continued strength in payrolls in August, a consequent decline in the unemployment rate, no change in the weak path of average hourly earnings, and a flat workweek.

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

The unemployment rate continued to decline in 2012, and we expect it to continue to trend lower in 2013.

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As the unemployment rate continues to somewhat decline among low - skill workers, employers of low - skill labor will clamor for an increase in low - skill immigration.

The USDA Economic Research Service found that although unemployment declined in 2012 and 2013, inflation and the price of food continued to increase.

The State Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, in a report earlier in the week, said all local governments in New York face a grim new fiscal reality, as tax revenues and state and federal aid decline, unemployment remains high, and the recession continues to linger.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

After a hiring slump in mid-2011, the job market has begun to show signs of strength, as the unemployment rate continued declining in the first...

A decline in initial unemployment claims has historically been a reliable signal of economic recovery, and in recent months, initial claims have continued downward.