After going for a record number of days (over 6 weeks) without economic data from the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce, we finally received a trickle. The Nov. 20 release was data ...

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the first Monday of September each year. This holiday honors the contributions of American workers and the labor movement, ...

An unsettled labor market is usually an indication of a troubled economy. In fact, a rapidly increasing unemployment rate characterizes the start of recessions. Therefore, a timely and accurate ...

ANALYSIS: Weakening labor data—from downward payroll revisions to new job openings falling to just 22,000 for August—has raised concerns the Fed may soon need to prioritize a cut to interest rates to ...

Recent signs of U.S. labor market softening tee up a third-straight Fed rate cut next week. We eye confirmation of this ongoing cooling in U.S. data this month. The S&P 500 rallied during a short ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Beneath strong headline numbers, key labor market ratios show clear signs of late-cycle weakness and slowing demand for workers. Prime-age employment, participation, and full-time job ratios have all ...

This paper examines how oil shocks shape labor market outcomes across 89 countries from 1975 to 2022. Leveraging a high-frequency oil supply shock series and a rich panel of quarterly labor market ...