The government shutdown delayed the BLS September jobs report by more than a month.

Break-even employment is a sort of balance figure between the number of job seekers and the number of jobs available.

“It's not the change of tariffs,” said KPMG U.S. CEO Tim Walsh, “but the fact that tariffs are changing, and then sometimes changing again.”

Although layoffs have been slowing, it's been an especially tough year for government workers and for staff at nonprofits that rely on federal funds.

The payroll processing firm found in its latest National Employment Report that the labor market just keeps going downhill, with most of the job losses hitting small and medium-sized business the hardest.

The expectation is that the Fed will cut rates — but what if inflation spiked in August? 

Melanie Ehrenkranz writes Laid Off, a newsletter she describes as “the coolest place on the internet to talk about being laid off.”

Employers have added an anemic 35,333 jobs per month since May.

We went looking for other labor market data to suss out how healthy the job market really is right now. 

“I came across a number of job postings in which companies were pretty blunt about what their expectations were for hires,” said Lindsay Ellis at the Wall Street Journal. “And that if you didn't like the culture, you probably shouldn't even apply.”