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The American labor market has cooled from the red hot hiring of 2021-2023. Employers added 180,000 jobs a month in 2024 through November, not bad but down from 251,000 in 2023, 377,000 in 2022 and ...
Federal, state and local governments added 33,000; professional business services, 26,000; and manufacturing, 22,000. But retail lost 28,000 jobs after seasonal adjustments, a sign that holiday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job openings unexpectedly increased in November while hiring softened, suggesting the labor market continued to slow at a pace that probably does not require the Federal ...
New data released by the Department of Labor on Wednesday showed that initial filings for unemployment insurance hit a seven-month low in the week ending Nov. 23, with 213,000 initial claims filed ...
And this current labor market is also becoming historic: With November’s gains, the US has added jobs for 47 consecutive months, making it the third-longest period of employment expansion on record.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, rebounded by 329,000 to 8.040 million by the last day of August, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, unwinding nearly half of the jump at the start of the month, indicating that labor market conditions remain fairly ...
With continued cooling in the job market and confidence that inflation is now dropping back toward the central bank's 2% target, two members of the Fed said Friday the time has come to cut rates ...