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.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to rise by 115,000 in June and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.3%.

For much of the past two years, investors have been waiting for the labor market to crack just enough to give the Federal ...

The unemployment rate is at a healthy 4.2 percent, but economists warn that it actually might be higher than that.

Shrinking labor force matters as healthcare job growth slows and nurse shortages persist, impacting staffing and international talent pipelines.

Look under the hood of Thursday's jobs report, and find some evidence that this remains a tough — or at least weird — labor market for job-seekers.

One major factor is that the population is aging — and therefore retiring out of the workforce. Another factor is the ...

During the pandemic, mothers saw a dramatic increase in workforce participation levels. however, since the beginning of 2025, those levels have seen continuous declines eliminating their pandemic ...