Economists had forecast a gain of 60,000 jobs last month. The unexpected drop was due to job losses in health care and the federal government.

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According to just about every significant economic indicator, including the December jobs numbers released Friday, the US economy is doing fine. Not great, mind you: Job growth stalled in 2025. But ...

In January, the U.S. economy added more than double the number of jobs economists had predicted, but revisions slashed job gains for 2025 by nearly 70%. MANHATTAN (CN) — Catching economists by ...

The mainstream media was predictably quick to denounce the labor market as weak according to November’s jobs report, but the talking heads are simply wrong. That alleged weakness is almost entirely ...

In today's uncertain job market, health-care seems to be a booming sector.

After going for a record number of days (over 6 weeks) without economic data from the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce, we finally received a trickle. The Nov. 20 release was data ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlined how the central bank is viewing the labor market after it cut interest rates last week for the third straight time, with a fresh jobs report due out on ...

Americans are entering 2026 with diminished confidence about the state of the labor market, after months of slow hiring and a tide of layoff announcements brought 2025 to a troubling close. According ...

A recent survey from Headway found that American workers are far more confident in their skills than reality supports. This disconnect is emerging in a landscape where 62 percent of workers are ...

Investors looking for a straight answer on the health of the labor market will have to keep waiting or once again make sense of mixed signals. That's especially true as this December morning marks ...

These latest data were delayed because of the Democrat-imposed government shutdown, but nevertheless paint a very clear picture: the Trump administration is making good on its promise to right-size ...