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The U.S. added just 64,000 jobs in November — a sign the labor market is slowing

Hiring cooled this fall, according to delayed figures released by the Labor Department Tuesday. Employers added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.6%. Read More

The U.S. May Be Gaining 60,000 Fewer Jobs Every Month Than We Thought

Fed Chair Jerome Powell says job gains may have been overstated, suggesting the U.S. economy could have lost jobs this summer. Read More

Is the U.S. jobs market tanking? Here's what the latest clues say.

A corrections-officer recruiter speaks with attendees during a job fair in New York City. Finding a job has gotten harder these days. The U.S. jobs market might not appear to be crumbling, but it's ... Read More

America’s job market just got some troubling news

The latest jobs report showed that the US economy lost 105,000 positions in October and added just 64,000 in November, with the unemployment rate rising to 4.6%, the highest in more than four years. Read More

Layoffs Coming to US Jobs Market in 2026

For the first half of 2025, the labor market was, in the words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a “low hire, low fire” environment, with minimal job cut announcements preventing sluggish ... Read More

6 charts to show your family when they ask why you don't have a new job

From the highest unemployment in years to job switchers seeing more modest raises than years past, charts show how the job market fared in 2025. Read More

The U.S. added a robust 119,000 jobs in September, but there are still signs of a weakening labor market

The United States added 119,000 jobs in September, a stronger-than-expected figure and a sign that the economy was adding jobs at a healthy clip before government shutdown. But the details of the ... Read More

Is the job market getting worse? As the shutdown continues, this is what we know

The impasse in Congress over funding has delayed a closely-watched report on the labor market for the second month in a row. Without that official jobs tally, the available signals are mixed. This ... Read More

Shocking jobs data resets recession bets

Challenger, Gray, & Christmas see a jobs market hindered by softening consumer and corporate spending. The U.S. government shutdown has halted the official jobs report, although alternative data show ... Read More

Is the U.S. jobs market tanking? Here’s what the latest clues say.

The U.S. jobs market might not appear to be crumbling, but it’s not getting any better — and it probably won’t anytime soon. Worries about the labor market flared up again this week after a new report ... Read More

Is the job market getting worse? As the shutdown continues, this is what we know

The government shutdown is again making it it hard to answer a critical question: How is the U.S. job market doing? The impasse in Congress over funding has delayed a closely-watched report on the ... Read More