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Seasonal hiring is expected to be no better than flat to 2018 totals this year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Consumers are still spending but remain concerned about the effects of...
The United Auto Workers union has initiated a strike against General Motors. Will the work stoppage be resolved quickly or will both sides hunker down for the long haul?
U.S. retailers have begun announcing expected seasonal hiring totals for the coming holiday season.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the black unemployment rate was nearly 50% above the national average in August. Why is that so?
After seeing the tally of weekly jobless claims and a stronger than expected private sector payrolls gain for August from ADP, the stage was set for a stronger than expected gain in nonfarm payrolls...
The first week of every month brings a new round of employment and payrolls data regarding the U.S. economy.
It may be that the slowing economy and the trade war with China, two interdependent factors, have started to catch up with corporate confidence. Layoffs surged in August.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics probably has at least some good insight into the jobs market. That said, it has to be a hard guess in making a forecast for the next decade.
One small state had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The largest gulf between any two major groups in the July jobless report was that between black and white Americans.
The U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in July, and the headline unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7%.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to take the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. There is evidence that more than 3 million people could lose jobs because companies may be unable...
Kohl’s has announced that it plans to take on more employees during the back-to-school, fall and holiday seasons.
The recent strikes are based on complaints that Amazon pays workers too little and works them too hard. New research shows that more than a third of Amazon workers want a union to represent them as...
Some Amazon workers, who believe they are either treated poorly or underpaid, plan to make Prime Day something less than ideal for America's largest e-commerce company.