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
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
Baroness Hallett intervened to say it was not just decision making that should be recorded but "the importance of keeping records… for public accountability".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024
The monarch butterfly population returning to their winter habitats fell by 59% this year, making it the second lowest level since scientists started keeping records.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2024
In the Fertile Crescent, village accountants began keeping records with clay tokens around 8000 b.c.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
