The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases reports that can shift global markets and influence Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, impacting personal finances across the U.S. The numbers in ...

Employment in the U.S. private sector declined again in August, according to a report released Thursday by private payroll processing firm ADP, the latest signal of job market growth cooling as ...

The first Friday of October came and went without new jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Investors accustomed to dissecting every payroll figure were left flying blind, forced to rely on ...

Without health care and social assistance jobs, the U.S. labor market would have seen a plummet of about 570,000 jobs in 2025.

An unsettled labor market is usually an indication of a troubled economy. In fact, a rapidly increasing unemployment rate characterizes the start of recessions. Therefore, a timely and accurate ...

Chairman Powell carefully opened the door to an interest-rate cut in September, pointing to rising risks for the labor market. As the United States heads into Labor Day on Sept. 1, the ...

This year saw significant developments in antitrust scrutiny of labor issues, including wage fixing, non-competes, and no-poach agreements. Applying the antitrust laws to labor markets and ...

December’s Jobs Report did little to temper concerns of a weakening labor market. Despite a usual holiday bump in hiring, the labor market only added 50,000 jobs, after losing another 76,000 jobs in ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

This paper provides new cross-country evidence on healthy aging—the extent to which populations age in better health across successive birth cohorts—and how this shapes labor market outcomes for older ...