The Labor Department released its August jobs report today, showing that the nation’s employers added 169,000 jobs last month, just slightly below what economists had predicted. The overall ...

(The Hill) – Layoffs surged nearly 40 percent last month, with employers eliminating 85,979 positions — the largest August hit since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to new ...

The surprisingly solid increase in employment in September was partly offset by bad news from the prior month: The updated August jobs report shows the economy shed 4,000 jobs instead of creating ...

Thursday’s jobs report added to mounting evidence that the U.S. labor market is losing steam. The September report, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), found that employment in July and ...

U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for seven weeks by the federal government shutdown. The ...