Workplace/Jobs

Economists say the number of college grads who are underemployed, or working in jobs that don’t require the degrees they just earned, is too high.

New York joins a growing number of states and jurisdictions in limiting employers from using credit history to make hiring or job decisions, like compensation.

While contract gigs can bring job seekers some much needed income and serve as a bridge to the next opportunity, these days, nothing is a guarantee.

When times are uncertain, businesses often turn to temp workers to test the waters before hiring full-time employees.

“Businesses say they would have raised wages by roughly an additional percentage point” had it not been for rising health insurance costs, said senior economics contributor Chris Farrell.

In Vietnam, there are two working-age adults for every person over 65 or under 15.

Fed Chair Jay Powell said there’s been essentially no job creation in the private sector in the last six months. But unemployment also remains low. What does this mean for the labor market, and the economy?

Higher inflation, lower unemployment, and a war — what’s all this mean for the job market going forward?

Long-term unemployment is defined as six months or more without work. The number of Americans in that group is up more than 300,000 over the past year, even as the overall jobless rate holds at 4.3%.

Writing and recording music for video is helping some musicians find financial stability.