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September 2026 Labor Market Recap

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By Vikas Patel
| employamerica.org
The unemployment rate edged up by 0.03pp to 4.18% in September. Nonfarm payrolls came in below expectations at +29,000; private payrolls came in at +46,000. Prime-age (25-54) employment ticked up by 0.28pp to 80.68% after a sampling quirk led to a sharp drop in June. The sampling quirk will likely reverse next month. July nonfarm payrolls were revised down by 31,000 to -10,000 and August was revised down by 29,000 to 133,000.
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August 2026 Core-Cast Post-PCE

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By Vikas Patel
| employamerica.org
Month-over-month core PCE came in at +25bps (vs 28bps nowcast) while the year-over-year core PCE reading came in at 3.01% (vs 3.14% nowcast). While headlines noted that today's reading were a downside miss, the month-over-month core PCE reading was only 1 basis point away from rounding up to the consensus estimate of 0.3%.
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Monetary Policy - Employ America

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By Preston Mui, Vikas Patel, Skanda Amarnath
| employamerica.org
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