By: Beth Mace | March 04, 2016
The Labor Department reported that non-farm employment increased by a healthy 242,000 positions in February. The originally reported January gain of 151,000 was revised up to 172,000. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey had called for a gain of 195,000. The three-month average from December to February was 228,000. For the private sector, February’s job gains marked the 72nd consecutive month of positive gains.
By: Beth Mace | March 02, 2016
By Beth Burnham Mace, Chief Economist, NIC
By: Beth Mace | February 05, 2016
The Labor Department reported that non-farm employment increased by 151,000 positions for the first month of 2016. The three-month average from November to January was 231,000. For all of 2015, jobs increased by an upwardly revised 2.7 million positions, the second strongest year since 1999. Moody’s Analytics expects comparable job gains in 2016, with roughly 200,000 positions generated per month.
By: Beth Mace | February 03, 2016
The U.S. seniors housing and care property sales market continued to remain active in the fourth quarter of 2015, although preliminary data shows dollar volume slowed significantly during the second half of the year. During the fourth quarter of 2015, $2.8 billion in seniors housing and care properties sales closed, down from $3.3 billion in the third quarter and $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014. Combined third- and fourth-quarter volume totaled $6.1 billion, which was down significantly from $12.7 billion in the first half of the year. The rolling four-quarter total fell to $18.7 billion from its $20.4 billion in the third quarter, but was up from $17.8 billion in late 2014.
