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| James Stinchcomb

Introducing Regional Underemployment

The unemployment rate in the United States is at historically low levels, coming in at 3.9% for July 2018, with many observers suggesting the nation is now at full employment. Despite the low unemployment rate, some questions remain about the state of the workforce. For example, one question is “how is the employment being utilized?” Or to put it another way, just because people have jobs right now, does that mean they have good jobs? One way to measure employment utilization is to look at the underemployment rate.

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| Alex Doherty

Popular Travel Destinations Poised for Continued Growth

Commercial air travel across the nation has increased by over 124 million passengers from 2012 through 2017, but some regions are benefitting more than others. The Los Angeles and New York City metro areas have each seen over 11 million more passengers board planes at their airports over the past five years. Following close behind, the Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Miami markets have also added more than 5 million air passengers from 2012 through 2017. The following map highlights these changes, with labels for all metro areas that gained over 2.5 million additional airplane passengers.

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| Greg Chmura

How Much Education Is Really Needed?

The amount of education someone needs for specific career is not necessarily simple to determine. As an example of this, in this blog we attempt to answer the question: “How much education do you need to be a registered nurse?”

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| Mike Kyffin

JobsEQ®: New Feature Round-up

The JobsEQ team never stops optimizing and expanding the platform. The latest set of updates includes two exciting workflow personalization features within the JobsEQ platform, the addition of union breakout data to our Demographic Profile Analytic, and some expanded analytic outputs for clients who have access to our Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) job posting data.