The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The latest jobs report warns policymakers that immigration ...

The labor market added 139,000 jobs and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.2% in May 2025, according to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those top line numbers indicate a ...

Evidence suggests Trump administration immigration policies are shrinking the size of the immigrant labor force, and the broader U.S. labor pool in recent months, according to economists CNBC spoke ...

In this post, I decompose the recent decline in LFPR into changes in the composition of the population and in workers' willingness to supply labor. I find that the reduction in the foreign-born ...

The share of Americans actively in the workforce hit a new low in June, extending a stretch of workers increasingly exiting employment or the job search. Continued unemployment claims - which count ...

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While national job growth has weakened, growth in Connecticut is stable, albeit low, according to new numbers released Thursday. Employers in the state added 900 jobs in August according to the latest ...