BLS released the revised data for the 4th quarter and incorporated the benchmark revisions to employment from the establishment survey. The net result is that productivity growth has averaged just 1.5 percent annually over the last two and a half years. At the least, this is a very serious cyclical slowdown, if it does not actually mark the end of the 1995 productivity upturn.
Let's see if the reporters notice.
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