labor market

With the unemployment rate now at 4.6%, economists are predicting more of the same, at least for the first half of next year.

But health care hiring’s good run may be coming to a close.

The economy lost 105,000 jobs in October but gained 64,000 jobs in November.

There are far fewer new job seekers in the U.S. due to Trump’s restrictive immigration policies. As a result, the goal posts for what healthy job growth looks like have also changed.

According to Peter Howitt, artificial intelligence has the power to create both future job loss and future jobs we can’t yet imagine.

Though a few industries have picked up the pace on hiring.

Unemployment, job turnover, and unemployment benefit applications are low. Employers in many industries are in low-hire, low-fire mode.

New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland finds that earning a college degree can still help you keep a job and get higher wages, but it’s less of an advantage than it used to be.

The government shutdown pushed the report’s release date back by more than six weeks.

The National Retail Federation predicts that this holiday season, retailers will hire fewer than 365,000 workers — the lowest number in 15 years.