employment

JOLTS numbers can tell us about demand for workers. But the data doesn’t say how hard employers are trying to hire somebody.

We check in with Shauna Kruse, who moved her family across country and went back to school to become an esthetician.

Workers may not be the biggest beneficiaries of the work opportunity tax credit, says ProPublica investigative reporter Emily Corwin.

Low levels of worker protections correlate to a lower standard of living, researcher says.

It pushes back on the idea that the economy is slowing. But the number of workers who quit, were hired or were laid off didn’t change much.

There were even job gains in construction and finance, which were expected to slow down. Wages grew again too.

Gig workers now have access to unemployment benefits as the economy has opened back up.

Health care, child care and K-12 education, which offer jobs with lower pay that need to be done in person, have yet to fully recover.

One factor that may have contributed to this growth? Jobs in accounting, IT, consulting and similar roles can still be done remotely.

Many older people returned to work, but the recovery isn’t as strong for people of color and women.