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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
Does seem like 2000 was a turning point for many economic indicators. Maybe those Y2K doomsters were right.
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http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=LCC
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