The Unemployment Rate Went Up for A Good Reason
The reason the unemployment rate rose slightly is that the number of Americans looking for work picked up.
The reason the unemployment rate rose slightly is that the number of Americans looking for work picked up.
The share of the workforce holding multiple jobs rose slightly in June but remains very low in a very strong labor market.
The June jobs report showed the American labor market making a strong rebound after a stumble in May.
Democrat 2020 candidate Andrew Yang claimed during Thursday’s debate that universal basic income, paid for by tax similar to Europe, would create “millions of jobs.”
It’s just not true that the low level of unemployment is because people are working multiple jobs.
About seven-in-ten Republican voters support tariffs on Chinese imports to protect American jobs and U.S. industries from unfair foreign competition, a new poll finds.
A California furniture and hardware company is planning to expand its manufacturing in the United States thanks to President Trump’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese imports.
Former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) official Michael Cutler says the ruling class is “destroying the middle class” through mass illegal and legal immigration to the United States.
Economists had expected the pace of job creation to moderate to 180,000 after April’s extremely hot 263,000.
The Institute for Supply Management its nonmanufacturing index rose to 56.9 in May from 55.5 in April
Private sector payrolls added just 27,000 new jobs in May, according to a report Wednesday from Moody’s Analytics and ADP.
Native born Americans have continued lagging behind foreign born workers in the United States’ workforce over the last decade, federal data finds.
The constant flow of legal immigration to the United States — with 1.2 million nationals admitted every year — has driven the “highest level in decades” of foreign workers in the American economy.
The Financial Times has admitted that the European working class have seen few gains from the post-crash recovery, fuelling a continued sense of grievance against the political establishment ahead of the European Parliament elections.
Economists had estimated that the economy would add 180,000 to nonfarm payrolls in April.
Private payrolls beat economist expectations by more than 100,000 jobs in April, setting the stage for a monster jobs report Friday.
Young Republicans and President Trump supporters are the most skeptical of the United States’ mass legal and illegal immigration policy, a new Harvard Insitute of Politics poll finds.
President Trump’s hand-picked appointees for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defied his “Buy American” economic nationalist agenda in a recent case where they voted to protect companies who falsely claimed their Chinese-manufactured products were “Made in America.”
Nearly all new jobs created in the United Kingdom since the 2016 European Union (EU) membership referendum have gone to British workers, a distinct change from the period before the vote when nearly half went to EU migrants.
More than 12 million Americans have remain sidelined from the U.S. workforce despite their wanting full-time employment, federal data suggests.
Working class American men have struggled to increase their labor participation rate to workforce levels before the Great Recession of 2007, new data finds.
Job growth picked up in March after a dismal February.
The Moody’s/ADP report on private payrolls shows that the jobs slump may have continued into March.
A stronger than expected reading from the manufacturing sector showed gains in orders, production, and employment.
It’s time to finally put to rest the idea that the steel and aluminum tariffs would hurt American workers and raise unemployment.
The White House’s economic staffers strongly suggested Tuesday there is no need for extra immigrant workers to fill new jobs in President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.
The number of people in the United Kingdom who are working has risen to historic highs in absolute terms, while the linked statistic of unemployment has also fallen to a low not seen in decades. The new release of government
The U.S. labor market began the year with a boom as employers posted a near-record number of job openings.
Foreign workers have now outpaced American workers in terms of job growth for at least half a year, new Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals.
Amazon will reportedly shut down all of its pop-up retail stores in the United States by the end of April.
The job engine stalled in February after booming in December and January.|
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will reopen an idled Detroit engine plant, invest billions into five existing Michigan plants, and create about 6,500 U.S. auto jobs in a move reflecting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda.
Multinational corporation Dexcom, Inc. has announced that it will lay off about 350 Americans in San Diego, California, and Mesa, Arizona, to outsource their jobs overseas, and specifically to the Philippines.
Despite protesters who oppose migrant detention centers, citizens of a small town in Illinois want the jobs and other benefits it will bring.
Economists had expected jobless claims to fall to 225,000. Instead, they fell all the way down to 216,000.
Home Depot is planning to hire a high number of employees in the Cleveland, Ohio, area.
Yale University hosted a symposium on Friday that advised illegal immigrants on how to navigate the United States job market, as well as informing women that they are placed at a “disadvantage” in their careers.
Job openings in metals-using sectors are up sharply compared to a year ago, dispelling the myth that steel and aluminum tariffs hurt U.S. workers.
The jobs market showed no signs of slowing down in December. Job openings hit an all-time high in the month despite the shutdown.
In fact, wages are beating inflation and layoffs are at record lows.