Worker productivity fell to start 2022 at its fastest pace in nearly 75 years while labor costs soared as the U.S. struggled with surging Covid cases, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.
Nonfarm productivity, a measure of output against hours worked, declined 7.5% from January through March, the biggest fall since the third quarter of 1947.
At the same time, unit labor costs soared 11.6%, bringing the increase over the past four quarters to 7.2%, the biggest gain since the third quarter of 1982. The metric calculates how much employers pay workers in salary and benefits per unit of output.
Wall Street already had been looking for a 5.2% drop in productivity and an increase of 10.5% in unit labor costs.
Taken together, the numbers underline the inflation surge in the U.S., which has seen prices rise at the fastest level in more than 40 years.
How are we going to fix that, with Democratic party promoting executive decisions that is taking the Country to the edge of the Abyss.
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