Without health care and social assistance jobs, the U.S. labor market would have seen a plummet of about 570,000 jobs in 2025.

While AI and geopolitical risks dominate the market narrative, we continue to closely track a more traditional driver of the economic cycle: the labor market.

This year saw significant developments in antitrust scrutiny of labor issues, including wage fixing, non-competes, and no-poach agreements. Applying the antitrust laws to labor markets and ...

January's U.S. employment report signals renewed labor market stability, with nonfarm payrolls up 130,000, far surpassing expectations. Private sector hiring drove gains, while public sector jobs ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February, that report did ...

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