Although AI and tech innovation is blamed for that drop, it has more to do with the lack of supply relative to the number of ...
A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all ...
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth slowed sharply in June and payroll gains for the prior two ...
Over the last year, about 1 million workers have thrown in the towel. In June alone, 720,000 people left the workforce. Here are some reasons why.
US prime-age labor force participation fell to 83.3% in June 2026, its lowest since December 2023, as 720,000 exited the ...
The unemployment rate is at a healthy 4.2 percent, but economists warn that it actually might be higher than that.
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to rise by 115,000 in June and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.3%.
Shrinking labor force matters as healthcare job growth slows and nurse shortages persist, impacting staffing and international talent pipelines.
For much of the past two years, investors have been waiting for the labor market to crack just enough to give the Federal ...
Behind the striking drop in the labor-force participation rate is a longer-term falloff in employment among older Ameri ...
The U.S. labor market has become one of the economy’s biggest contradictions. Monthly payroll reports continue to show ...