Tucked into the president’s budget Monday was a little extra something something for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Specifically, it allocated a couple of million dollars to let them fold what’s called “the quits rate” — people leaving their jobs in search of greener pastures — into the monthly data.
It’ll let us talk about even more jobs stuff every month.
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen looks at it pretty closely too. So there’s that.
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