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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 U.S. is experiencing its largest immigration wave in generations, driven by millions of people from around the world seeking personal safety and economic opportunity. Immigrants are swelling the ...