Data released by America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics on June 5th all but buried last year’s labour-market gloom. Employers ...

While AI and geopolitical risks dominate the market narrative, we continue to closely track a more traditional driver of the economic cycle: the labor market. For many years now, an aging population ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Consumers’ perceptions of labor market conditions have historically aligned closely with the unemployment rate. However, the two diverged during the pandemic, when the unemployment rate spiked while ...

Paul Toomey is the President of Geographic Solutions. He's an expert in labor market data, workforce development and unemployment insurance. Over the last 140 years, the United States’ ability to ...

Lately economists have been vigorously debating the health of America’s labour market. Some argue that the jobs market is weakening, portending a downturn and requiring further interest-rate cuts from ...

The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 115,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.3%, an indication of resilience at a time when war and high gas prices loom large. April’s ...