The Labor Department is dropping two big sets of data this week. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for November will come out Wednesday, and the jobs report for December will be out Friday.

As interest rates rise and companies tighten their belts, white-collar workers have taken the brunt of layoffs and job cuts, breaking with the usual pattern leading into a downturn. WSJ explains why ...

Welcome to the “steady-as-she-goes” US labor market: Halfway through 2024, job gains are cooling slightly but overall employment activity remains solidly stable. The US economy added 206,000 jobs in ...

As Federal Open Markets Committee members turn their attention from this week’s interest rate decision to September’s, the upcoming employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be ...

Total employment spiked by 2.23 million in January from December, reflecting the adjustment in the household survey data for the massive wave of immigrants, legal and illegal, over the past years.

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