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The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

With all the uncertainty swirling around the economy — over tariffs and inflation, the cost of doing business and the cost of living — it was a relief to see the recent solid, strong jobs report for ...

Swings in immigration policy and an aging workforce are drastically reducing the break-even employment rate of the labor ...

• The latest employment snapshot from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a bleak picture of the current state of the economy under President Donald Trump. • Labor market deterioration: Just 22,000 ...

The federal government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggest the labor market has weakened modestly since summer. By Ben Casselman Job growth has remained ...

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Job openings jumped by 443,000 in October from August, seasonally adjusted, to 7.67 million. Quits fell by 150,000 in October from August to 2.94 million workers who quit their jobs voluntarily, such ...