Labor Market

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

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

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Americans continued to open up their wallets and spend last month despite higher prices and…

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

US stock futures trod water on Tuesday as investors waited for a revision to jobs numbers, seen as…

The U.S. economy, already plagued by tariff uncertainty and inflation concerns, received a “jolt” of bad news just…

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Forecasts for tepid U.S. job growth in August and a rise in unemployment…

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

Commuters on a SEPTA train platform at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Bloomberg) — Employers in the…

This is just one of the stories from our “I’ve Always Wondered” series, where we tackle all of…

There’s good news and bad news these days when it comes to the American labor market. On the…

Markets ended the week largely unfazed by a hotter wholesale inflation print and signs of firming consumer prices,…

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