Publication of a series of reports on the state of the Labour Market. On thursday, yesterday, one of the latest of those reports showed that private employers and dgs were posting their smallest monthly growth since January 2021 with just shy of 100,000 new positions. Government data showed the job positions. Government data showed theJob Openings positions. Government data showed the Job Openings had dropped to a 3. 5 year low, 7. 67 million vacancies through dropped to a 3. 5 year low, 7. 67 million vacancies throuthuly. Million vacancies through july. Later million vacancies throuthuly. Later today, all eyes are going to be in the Monthlyjob Survey of employers and households. A reminder, last month the Labour Department reported the Unemployment Rate at hit 4. 3 injuly. Unemployment rate at hit 4. 3 in july. That was Unemployment Rate at hit 4. 3 injuly. That was up Unemployment Rate at hit 4. 3 in july. That was up from Unemployment Rate at hit 4. 3 injuly. That was up from 3. 5 a
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Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th