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

Learn about the U.S. civilian labor force: who it includes, who it excludes, and how it affects unemployment stats, according ...

Workers in Yangon’s industrial zones are enduring severe, long-term economic losses driven by a stark disparity between basic salaries and the actual cost ...

The Delaware Department of Labor is currently conducting its Annual Prevailing Wage Survey for state-funded construction ...

The unemployment rate rose more than expected in November and previous jobs figures were revised downward as the first full report after months of a data fog revealed a weakening labor market. In ...

The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November and lost 105,000 jobs in October, while the November unemployment rate rose to 4.6%. The data represents ongoing weakening in the labor market. Further ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlined how the central bank is viewing the labor market after it cut interest rates last week for the third straight time, with a fresh jobs report due out on ...

Growth in the construction industry plateaued over the past year — and in 2026, look for that trend to continue. Faced with labor shortages, supply chain issues and economic pressures like high ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank decided to cut rates at today's meeting because the labor market was cooling and there was no sign of a hot economy that would spur inflation.

The unemployment rate might have risen in September, but remains below the Fed's projections. Along with a fast rise in payrolls increases, it indicates a still strong labor market. Expectations for a ...

The Labor Department said Wednesday it wouldn’t issue complete October jobs data because of the effects of the government shutdown. The longest shutdown on record, which ended last week, stopped the ...

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