In November, the number of people who want to have full-time work but haven’t found it due to economic reasons declined by about 300,000.

Six months of incremental softening of the job market has firmed up to something tangible: the number of people continuing to file for unemployment was the highest it’s been in almost two years.

Average hourly earnings rose 4.1% year-over-year in October; the rate peaked near 6% in March 2022. The slowdown in wage growth is helping the Fed wrestle inflation lower.

“This particular job, one of the reasons I took it is because I knew that you’d never stop learning, and I find that really exciting,” said Violet O’Brien, a notary in Houston.

What one veteran and former bartender found in a new job.

This spring, there were 14.2 million undergraduates in the U.S., about 9% fewer than in spring 2019.

The jobless rate for young workers has jumped since late 2021 and loan repayment is back on the table. Soon-to-be grads are scrambling.

In “Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor,” authors Newman and Jacobs advocate letting tight labor markets stay that way.

A rule that makes the underlying data more consistent has delayed February’s report by a week.

There are ways to figure out the quality of jobs that are being added to the economy.