Jobs News Labor Market Appears Strong For Workers Despite Recent Job Cuts

Small businesses slashed jobs in November amid concerns about labor market's strength

Private companies cut an unexpected 32,000 jobs in November as hiring has stalled out and unemployment creeps upward in a fragile job market. Read More

For Wall Street, pandemic-level bad news for jobs is good news for stocks—it pushes the Fed further into cutting territory

Wall Street is hoping for a Christmas miracle with a final interest rate cut from the Fed, bringing the base rate down to 3.5% to 3.75%, and recent jobs reports may just have sealed the deal.Investors ... Read More

Private Employers Cut Jobs in November, the Latest Sign of a Slowdown

Data from ADP, a payroll processor, is getting added attention because of delays in official statistics caused by the government shutdown. Read More

"No hire, no fire" job market may no longer be a thing as big companies announce mass layoffs

For most of 2025, the job market was described by economists as "no hire, no fire" — a stretch of time when job seekers faced slim prospects, but workers could count on job security. But that fragile ... Read More

Official Job Market Data Is Delayed: Here's What Private Sources Say

With government data on the job market for November still weeks away, a pair of private reports show pink slips are flying faster than job offers. Read More

The Job Market Is In Its Worst Stretch Since The Pandemic

Private employers shed 32,000 jobs in November, disappointing forecasters' expectations and marking the worst four-month stretch for the job market since 2020. 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

Class of 2025: How’s the job search going? The Midwest Newsroom wants to know

Recent college graduates are likely to feel the brunt of a tighter labor market first, as employers tamp down on new hiring, and workers who might have left hug their jobs. According to an August ... Read More

Is the job market frozen or faltering?

They call it the Great Freeze. That’s how some analysts describe the U.S. job market recently — a “low-hire, low-fire” environment where workers who have jobs are not losing them but finding a new job ... Read More

Corporate profits are soaring even as layoffs mount. Economists call it a "jobless boom."

As U.S. corporate profits rise and the stock market hits new highs, investors are reaping the rewards. Yet beneath the surge, companies have cut nearly 1 million jobs this year — the most since 2020, ... Read More

Absent the jobs report, let's look at other labor market indicators

Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ weekly report on jobless claims nationwide usually comes out. But with the government shutdown, it remains absent. It’s been about a ... Read More