US labour market – unemployment rises on back of rising participation rate

Created
Mon, 04/09/2023 - 09:45
Updated
Mon, 04/09/2023 - 09:45
Last Friday (September 1, 2023), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – August 2023 – which showed payroll employment rising by 187,000 but also that the unemployment rate has now starting rising (up 0.3 points) to 3.8 per cent. Is this the tipping point?…