The broadest measure of unemployment in the USA is the U-6 unemployment rate. In addition to the recently unemployed who are actively seeking work, it includes discouraged workers who have quit looking for a job and part-time workers who would like to upgrade to full-time employment. This rate has gradually declined from a high of 17.1% in April 2010 to 7.6 percent as of May 2018–the lowest data point for this rate since the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking it in 1994. Click on the graph below to see sources and a brief explanation of the six unemployment rates tracked by the Federal Government.
The Momentum Index is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year.
The world’s largest 123 cities generate an astonishing $36 trillion in GDP per year. This infographic breaks these global cities down into seven typologies.
Last year, among the nation’s 84 big cities, 55 of them either grew at lower rates than in 2016 or have sustained population losses. Frey discusses the implications of a population shift.
Now the largest adult generation in the U.S., and due to their valuable attributes, millennials are highly sought after by communities all over the country.
What should San Francisco do with 730 Stanyan St.? The property used to be a McDonald’s on the border of the Cole Valley and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods.
The developer of a 315-unit apartment complex, which sparked a years-long political battle in the East Bay city of Lafayette, said he would bring it back if voters killed a ballot measure to put 44 single-family homes on the same lot.
The work of the acclaimed chef and writer, who has died at 61, provides a model for a truly inclusive urbanism based on the creativity of all human beings.
I strive to understand what creates opportunities—and challenges—for real estate investment and sustainable community development. Learn more about me at http://www.urbanexus.com/about-h-pike-oliver/.
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