The share of American men working or searching for a job recently hit the lowest level since 1948, aside from the pandemic, ...

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 ...

In the latest jobs report, out Friday, there’s some details to like and and some to be worried about. On the “maybe we should worry about this” side, the labor force participation rate — aka the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new labor market analysis based on June 2025 data revealed that a ...

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In 2025, however, it appears that the gains that women had made in recent years started to slip away. In the first half of the year, about 212,000 women exited the workforce, and there was a marked ...

Lightcast economists Ron Hetrick and Hannah Grieser find that the trends they identified last year—Baby Boomer retirements, smaller “replacement” generations, and declining labor force ...

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...

Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics report dropped with a thud, showing a loss of 92,000 jobs in February. But we took a closer look at the data to see what other signals it may contain of what’s to ...

The number of Arlington residents counted as unemployed in February stood at the third lowest level over the past year, ...