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

In 2025, the labor market is softening but not collapsing, even amid a government shutdown. Job growth has slowed, with unemployment nearing 4%, but GDP growth remains strong, supporting economic ...

Women have made gains since many were forced out of the workforce during the pandemic. But that could be changing. During the ...

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 ...

Connecticut employers cut an estimated 5,700 jobs in September and the state’s labor force shrank for the third month in a row, offering new signs that hiring is cooling in step with national ...

According to a November 2025 report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Texas economy set new records for the number ...