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BLS: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Retail Sales Workers
Employment of retail salespersons has traditionally grown with the overall economy, and this trend is expected to continue. Population growth will increase retail sales and demand for these workers.
Gallows humor. Sigh.
Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Indexes of Aggregate Weekly Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees: Retail Trade
4 comments:
Does seem like 2000 was a turning point for many economic indicators. Maybe those Y2K doomsters were right.
Fred
The Matrix called it in 1999:
"Which is why the Matrix was re-designed to this: the peak of your
civilization."
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=LCC
added age 15-64 population 2002=100
All,
Peekaboo Civilization!
First you see it, then you don't, lol. Sigh.
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