Financial stocks can’t catch a break. Investors dumped shares of banks, brokerages, and other financial services companies on ...

U.S. Sheds 92,000 Jobs in February. Why the Report Was Weak. Follow live news and analysis after a surprise drop in U.S.

Health care, typically a sector with strong and steady net job growth, suffered a setback in February due to a major ...

Rising beef prices are pushing Washington to take another look at a familiar question: Is the U.S. meat industry too concentrated?

The unemployment rate, arguably the key number Federal Reserve policymakers watch in the monthly labor data, unexpectedly ...

Amid the bad news from February’s steep payroll decline, one bright spot in Friday’s report was that pay increased last month ...

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Questions about the immigration program’s cost and legality have wealthy foreigners weighing other options, their lawyers say.

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are falling in premarket trading as the stock market awaits jobs data and more news on the Iran war.

Every year, the BLS updates the population estimates that are incorporated into the household survey, which tracks indicators such as unemployment and labor-force participation. The net effects of the ...

Economists have been warning for over a year about the risk of narrow job growth in the labor market. February’s data shows exactly why that’s a problem. Basically, the only robust hiring has been ...

The federal workforce continues to shrink. Federal employment fell by 10,000 jobs last month, the BLS reported. That’s down 330,000, or 11%, since October 2024. State payrolls rose slightly in ...