The Labor Department has released its first jobs report of the year, covering January 2025. It shows that payrolls grew by ...

One explanation is that economic data is backward-looking: Friday's report reflects the state of the labor market in January, before the relative chaos began. Even so, I expected there would at ...

The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in January than economists had forecast, although the jobless rate edged lower.

Instead, the most recent labor data shows unemployment low and steady, clocking in at 4%. Plus, job growth is still ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits decreased last week, suggesting the labor market ...

US non-farm payrolls in January posted softer-than-expected growth, but the broader profile of the labor market suggests a ...

In his most recent press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell characterized the labor market as "broadly stable." And in this week's lead-up to the January jobs report, the incoming ...

But, on many other measures, we see a labor market that is gradually cooling. Perhaps the most important numbers in the report were the downward revisions to estimates of job growth in April and May.

Demand for professional skills has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to a new study. But the picture is complex. While there were fewer jobs in areas such as ...

But 65,000 people entering the labor market is actually "a quite small number," said Harry Holzer, a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings Institute and a public policy ...

The labor market data will be a “critical factor” for Bitcoin’s momentum, the analyst told Cointelegraph: “A strong labor market typically reduces the likelihood of imminent Fed rate cuts ...