October 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the October 2024 Snapshot and it shows a 9% drop in growth from September. For October 2024, there were 121,000 net new social security enrollees…
September 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the September 2024 snapshot and it’s a 49% jump from August. For September 2024, there were 133,000 net new social security enrollees over the age…
Labor Shortages In 2032 & Today
The HR Digest had two interesting articles on labor shortages. The first is an article on a report from Lightcast which projects a deficiency of 6 million workers by 2032.…
July 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the July 2024 snapshot and it’s a 217% jump from last month but we think last month was an anomaly but the trend has returned…
Labor Shortages – August 2024
It’s August 2024 and we are still seeing massive labor shortages. Wait? What? Did we say labor shortages right when everyone was hollering about a surge in unemployment? What’s going…
Inflation Will Spike Again
While the world is cheering lower inflation and some central banks around the world have been cutting rates with the United States potentially poised to cut rates in September, we…
Skilled Labor Shortages = Chaos
Earlier this week, we wrote a post about the current 72.376 million people on social security. Today, Crowdstrike uploaded a patch that crippled computers world wide. No doubt there will…
June 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the June 2024 snapshot and it’s another jump in enrollments. For June 2024, there were 135,000 net new social security enrollees over the age of…
May 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the May 2024 snapshot and it’s another jump in enrollments. For May 2024, there were 157,000 net new social security enrollees over the age of…
Jobs Expansion May 2024
The BLS released the much awaited jobs report and it’s a boom report. From the BLS: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 272,000 in May, and the unemployment rate changed…