Post Labor Economics: How will the economy work after AGI? Recent thoughts and conversations Shapiro outlines some interesting ideas, which I'll attempt to summarize below if you don't have time to ...

The U.S. economy is rapidly evolving for small businesses and some states are creating transition offices to make sure that ...

Last week’s jobs report wasn’t a “good” report, but it wasn’t a collapse either. Payrolls are still growing modestly, and the ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, but the drop was ...

The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

The U.S. labor market is not weakening — rather, it is adjusting to new demographic and economic realities. Lower job growth ...

The American economic historian and labor economist is the third woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes ...

The latest data suggest slower hiring is undermining neither growth nor profits. Rather, the numbers reflect an economy ...

The delayed release of the BLS report has led to fearmongering about the economy's ability to function. Leila Fadel, host of NPR's Up First, said on Friday that "businesses and policymakers are flying ...

Over short time periods, such as a few quarters or a couple of years, productivity correlates very strongly with gross domestic product. Total output drives the market opportunity of companies. Total ...

The government shutdown delayed the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, “arguably the most important piece of information” for the Federal Reserve to review before its meeting at the end of the ...