Labor market

The dramatic rise in unemployment among Americans under 25—especially recent graduates—has become one of the most troubling economic…

Wall Street economists and investors seem mostly sanguine about the US economy’s chances of avoiding a recession in…

In new research, Priyaranjan Jha, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez find that studies arguing higher minimum…

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, from left, Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem,…

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) -Investors will look for the Federal Reserve to communicate how worried it…

No matter how you slice it, the August jobs report showed a weakening labor market. Nonfarm payrolls came…

Employment gains were so weak in the July jobs report that President Donald Trump fired the head of…

A new St. Louis Fed study suggests the U.S. may be seeing early signs of AI-driven job displacement,…

Upwork Inc. Inaugural monthly analysis of the freelance economy provides an early signal of U.S. labor market shifts,…

By at least one measure, the US stock market is more concentrated in its biggest names than it’s…

There’s one group of workers that could be in for a particularly rough time as AI becomes more…

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Since the Federal Reserve’s decision last month to hold interest rates steady, a shift…

Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—and it’s not about AI eating entry-level jobs