Jobs

The U.S. economy added 172,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3 percent.

More than twice as many as expected.

Analysts, economists, the media, and the public all built their intuitions about what job numbers mean during past eras of rising labor force growth.

A new economics paper puts its finger on something that American workers have felt for years: it has become much harder to use one job as a springboard to a better one.

The March JOLTS report reveals a healthy labor market operating under new structural conditions.

The labor market showed renewed vigor in March as hiring surged while job openings held steady, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is reportedly set to lay off hundreds of employees across its TV, film, and corporate offices.

Here is a question that has been nagging at economists: why has wage growth held up so well when payroll growth has been so weak?

The break-even rate of employment growth — the number of new workers needed on payrolls each month to hold the unemployment rate steady — has collapsed to near zero, according to converging analyses from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

As the Biden immigration-driven labor force disaster is healed by Trump’s immigration policies, breakeven employment falls to historic lows—rewriting the rules for reading jobs data.

Jobs boomed in March, exceeding expectations by nearly 300%.

The people telling you the labor market is cracking probably failed to update their models for the single biggest structural change in the U.S. labor force in a generation.

Private employers added 62,000 jobs in March, blowing past the 40,000 gain economists had forecast, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.

The JOLTS report looks less like a labor market losing steam than one settling into full employment in a country where the labor force has stopped growing rapidly.

New York City’s job growth has stalled for six years, despite many welfare workers getting hired to support its massive inflow of migrants.

Without the assurance of millions of new workers arriving—three million arrived on average in each of President Biden’s final two years in office—employers are deciding to keep current jobholders in place.

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Much worse than expected.

U.S. businesses went on a hiring spree in February, the latest data from payroll processor ADP shows.

Columbia University has backed off after promoting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recruitment event online which drew the ire of leftists.

A viral statistic suggesting otherwise has drawn more than 600,000 views on X, creating a narrative of broad-based labor market collapse. But the data tells a different story.

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), during a Breitbart News policy event, reacted to the jobs numbers that were released on Wednesday, pointing out that it means, “American businesses are investing in American jobs in America.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at a Breitbart News policy event reacted to the stellar jobs numbers released on Wednesday, saying that President Donald Trump is powering the “greatest growth the United States has ever seen.”

Challenger data shows surge in announced job cuts, but government statistics tell different story of stable employment.

Private sector employment increased by just 22,000 jobs in January, falling short of economist expectations but landing closer to a rapidly declining break-even threshold for job creation, according to ADP’s National Employment Report released Wednesday. The figure came in well

A leftist protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis on Friday admitted on camera she was there because it is literally her job.

The drop in the unemployment rate was much better than expected even though job creation fell short of forecasts.

2025 was a bloodbath for workers in Hollywood as the media continued its downward spiral from its once commanding position as a U.S. leader.

Tuesday’s chaotic employment report had something for everyone from hawks to doves, bulls to bears.

New unemployment claims were filed by the fewest Americans in over three years last week, far fewer than economists had been expecting. There were 191,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the week that included Thanksgiving, the Department of Labor

Payrolls at U.S. businesses shrank by 32,000 jobs in November, according to payroll processor ADP, highlighting concerns about the health of the labor market. This was the largest monthly job loss since early 2023, according to ADP data. “Hiring has

The company that makes brands such as Sharpie, Mr. Coffee, Yankee Candle, and Graco said Monday it will slim its workforce to be more competitive.

On NewsNation on Friday, former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore praised the current economy and expressed confidence for things going forward into 2026, but stated that “it is true that the job market has softened.” Moore began by saying that

The better-than-expected jobs report released Thursday shows that the Trump administration’s economic policies are working, Vice President JD Vance said.