Employers are now contending with fallout from Trump’s policies, especially his aggressive use of import taxes – tariffs.

U.S. job growth was solid in June while the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 4.1%, suggesting the labor market remained ...

The U.S. labor market likely slowed further in June, with the unemployment rate expected to have edged up to more than a ...

Employment confidence remains near the lows seen during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. The Westpac-McDermott Miller Employment ...

Weekly applications have typically ranged between 200,000 and 250,000 since layoffs and firings became more routine during the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic ... Jerome Powell repeatedly to cut ...

The economy needs to create roughly 100,000 jobs per month to keep up with growth in the working-age population. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%.

Consumers’ perceptions of labor market conditions have historically aligned closely with the unemployment rate. However, the two diverged during the pandemic, when the unemployment rate spiked while ...

Unemployment in Texas dropped to 3.9% in December, reaching its lowest rate since February 2020. This is the first time unemployment has fallen below 4% since before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

U.S. employers likely hired the fewest workers in 14 months in June, but the jobless rate probably remained near pre-pandemic lows, underscoring labor market tightness that could encourage the ...

Before the pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate reached a historic low that was close to estimates of its underlying longer-run value and the short-run level associated with an absence of inflationary ...

The U.S. added 467,000 nonfarm jobs in January 2022, far above the estimate of 150,000. The unemployment rate was stable.