keeping records

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In the nearly 80 years the Labor Department has been keeping records, whenever the unemployment rate has made a clear turn higher, a recession has always followed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

This ensures the company isn’t keeping records of your online activity.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

One of the paper’s authors, Brookings Institution economist Tara Watson, said this drop in migration hasn’t happened since they have been keeping records in 1960.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

UK rents rose by 9% over the 12 months leading up to February, the highest annual increase since the Office for National Statistics began keeping records in 2015.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

In the Fertile Crescent, village accountants began keeping records with clay tokens around 8000 b.c.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann