June’s figures suggest businesses remain wary of the economy’s health, with inflation at a three-year high and consumer confidence near post-pandemic lows.
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Hiring has bounced back this year from a miserable 2025, showing resilience in the face of economic uncertainty and painfully high energy prices caused by the Iran war.
An ever-increasing group of older Americans is discovering that retirement is no longer a permanent state.
Summer work experience teaches teamwork and adherence to standards, and it offers a view into balancing work and life that no textbook can teach.
The gap between young and older Americans’ views of the job market now is greater than in any other country among the 141 surveyed, according to the Gallup World Poll.
The recent uptick in hiring raises hopes that the job market will break out of a recent rut – in which Americans who have jobs are relatively secure from layoffs but jobseekers struggle to find work.
The Indiana State Teachers Association attributed the finding to inflation, compression of mid-career salaries and limited collective bargaining rights.
A year ago, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted the gold card would raise $1 trillion in revenue and help “balance the budget.”
The company said it was making the cuts for the sake of efficiency and to allow new investments in parts of its business.
The law, which takes effect July 1, provides that employers who knowingly and intentionally hire undocumented immigrants could face civil actions.
Like engraving, repairing musical instruments and many other skilled trades, creating and fitting garments to individual specifications hasn’t attracted enough entry-level workers over the years to replace the professionals retiring their pincushions.
The report showed signs that employers had begun to regain confidence in stable business conditions following the volatile policy swings of the first year of the second Trump administration.
Gallup’s survey is consistent with what economists call the “low-hire, low-fire” job market.
The company accuses the employee of breaching his employment agreement by working for a competitor and soliciting customers and an employee to join him.
History shows that economists and researchers have been terrible at predicting the effects of new technologies on work and workers, so take forecasts seriously but not literally.
Layoffs fell slightly and the number of Americans quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects — slipped modestly.
Health care, which has been buoying the labor market for months, lost 28,000 positions in February, reflecting major strikes in California and New York. The information sector, which includes tech and media, shed 11,000 positions.
This shift coincides with a broad reassessment of what the best career paths are in today’s labor market, which economists have called one of the most vexing in generations—especially for entry-level applicants.
Hiring has stagnated overall in the U.S., and tens of thousands of employees at a growing list of major firms are losing their jobs.
The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been reducing a workforce that swelled during the pandemic.
Tight labor markets have tended to pull more entry-level applicants into the workforce, which, in turn, lowers the average age of people being hired, experts say, but that doesn’t seem to be happening now.
