Economic News

Average expenditures per consumer unit for 2017 were $60,060, a 4.8% increase from 2016 levels. During the same period, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) rose 2.1%, and average pret...

Unemployment rates were lower in August in 13 states, higher in 3 states and stable in 34 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. E...

Prices for U.S. imports advanced 3.7% from August 2017 to August 2018 and have not recorded a 12-month decline since October 2016. Over the year ending August 2018, import prices f...

The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.2 years in January 2018, unchanged from the median in January 2016, the U.S. Bure...

Real average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased 0.2% from August 2017 to August 2018. The change in real average hourly earnings, combined with...

Over the 12 months from August 2017 to August 2018, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 2.7%, not seasonally adjusted. The August increase was smaller tha...

Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $36.22 per hour worked in June 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $24.72 per ho...

By Gwendolyn Brown NTDA President Don Ake, Vice President, Commercial Vehicles for Freight Transportation Research Associates, Inc., dba FTR, provided a trailer sales and productio...

By Gwendolyn Brown NTDA President William A. Strauss, Senior Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, kicked off the General Session during the FTR Transportation Confer...