Average Hourly Earnings
US labor market shows strength amid surge in payrolls gains
U.S. job growth accelerated in November while the unemployment rate fell to 3.7%.
Bill Adams
US job openings hit more than 2-1/2-year low as labor market cools
U.S. job openings fell to more than a 2-1/2-year low in October, the strongest sign yet that higher interest rates were dampening demand for workers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
US weekly jobless claims at three-month high; import prices tumble
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased to a three-month high last week.
James Meyers
U.S. Economy Added 150K Jobs In October, Less Than Expected
In the latest job reporting for the month of October, the United States economy saw job creation decrease.
Business
US consumer prices rise on surge in rents; underlying inflation cools
U.S. consumer prices rose in September as rental costs surged.
Daily Feed
Daily Feed 4/7/23
A women’s sport advocate is attacked by a man in a dress, while the Labor Department releases a slightly underwhelming jobs report.
child labor
Kids clean slaughterhouses
In what the Labor Department dubbed a “corporate-wide failure” by one of the biggest food sanitation companies in the nation, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. has been discovered to have had 102 minors as young as 13, employed in dangerous nocturnal positions, cleaning slaughterhouses in eight states.