Home Construction Up 4.9% in October to 1.53M
by Associated Press – 2 weeks ago
Home construction rose 4.9% in October as home building remains as one of the bright spots of the economy.
Home construction rose 4.9% in October as home building remains as one of the bright spots of the economy.
Retail sales in the U.S. grew a sluggish 0.3% in October, even as retailers offered early holiday discounts online and in stores.
After dropping dramatically with passage of the Affordable Care Act, the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans began to rise starting in 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report earlier this month.
A new monthly survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests faltering confidence in the region's economy as a new surge of the coronavirus outbreak sweeps the country. read more >
U.S. construction spending jumped 1.3% in October, again on the strength of single-family home building. read more >
It's a perfect story: Hardworking young man full of energy and ideas finds unlikely success, only to be knocked down by the establishment that feels threatened by a new generation of talent. Maybe a little too perfect. read more >
The unemployment rate in Arkansas dropped by a full percentage point in October, from 7.2% in September to 6.2% last month. read more >
The 2020 General Election attracted 66.4% of eligible voters, with turnout highest in Minnesota at 79.9%. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declines to 6.2% in October from 7.2% in September, the state Department of Workforce Services reports. read more >
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose last week to 742,000, the first increase in five weeks and a sign that the resurgent viral outbreak is likely slowing the economy and forcing more companies to cut jobs. read more >
As I studied up on dozens of PPP fraud cases filed around the country since May, several common elements began to emerge. read more >
In 2019, 0.89% of the loans that banks in the United States held were nonperforming, meaning that 99% of loan recipients were repaying their bank back. read more >
The genius of our elections is their decentralization. They are conducted at the county level, by local officials answerable to local voters and depended upon by local candidates. Systemic corruption would require the kind of vast conspiracy that makes a conspiracy exceptionally unlikely to succeed. read more >
Times that test our organizational culture and values can show us how genuine those fundamentals are and how much of a resource they can be. read more >
Unemployment drops to 6.9% but US job growth slows again to 638,000 in face of surging pandemic. read more >
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic. read more >
The overall economic measure of a monthly survey of Midwest business leaders hit a 16-year high for October, but the manufacturing sector of the economy remains stunted from the coronavirus outbreak. read more >
The importance of voting — the fundamental civic duty of voting — was never in question in my family. As a result, I'm always stunned by the number of Americans who do not vote or who vote only sporadically, and especially by the people who aren't excited to vote at the very first opportunity. read more >
Voting may be compared to consumer participation in a sales transaction. One can characterize the action of casting a vote as a one-day sale. All product promotion ultimately must culminate in the sale. read more >
Eager to be shed of Obamacare once and for all? Be careful what you wish for. read more >
Unsurprisingly, those with a higher degree of educational attainment not only earn more money, but they also experience less unemployment. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7.3% in September from 7.4% in August, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
An estimated $449.64 billion was donated to charities in the United States in 2019, “placing it among the highest years ever for charitable giving,” according to Giving USA 2020: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2019. read more >
While I avoid public predictions, sticking with only observing what has actually happened, something that I thought would happen actually has happened. read more >
Two decades into the 21st century, it's clear Arkansas' national economic ranking has changed in a fundamental way. read more >
The phenomenon of women being bulldozed by men is universal. I suspect it's even more common than the #metoo experience of being sexually harassed (or much worse) in the workplace. read more >
The unemployment rate in Arkansas moved up slightly in August, to 7.4%, as it did in six of the state's eight metro areas. Only Fort Smith and Texarkana posted declines between July and August. read more >
So much is going on that it's hard to keep up. I avoid making predictions because I'm almost always wrong, so I'm going to comment on some things that have been sloshing around in my brain. read more >
A case could be made for retailers to think differently about "place" — channel and distribution, how their product is presented and delivered. read more >
The United States spent about $11,100 per person on health care in 2019, almost twice the $5,500 average of other developed countries, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation noted recently. read more >
State finance officials says September tax collections came in above 2 percent below the same month last year but 12% above forecast, with all major collection categories coming in ahead of expectations. read more >
In 2019, renewable energy consumption in the United States surpassed coal for the first time in more than 130 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. read more >
The number of COVID deaths in our country has already topped 200,000 (roughly the population of Little Rock). But there are millions upon millions of other casualties: More than 61 million unemployment claims had been filed between March and mid-September. read more >
