For months—perhaps even years now—the labor market has trucked along and allowed the Federal Reserve headspace to contend with its favorite problem child: inflation. But more recently, data in the ...

Interpreting real-time labor market conditions is challenging because commonly used indicators are noisy, revised over time, and often send conflicting signals. In practice, policymakers and market ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday said that the economy continues to see a softening of the labor market despite the government shutdown delaying the release of official jobs and ...

The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 115,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.3%, an indication of resilience at a time when war and high gas prices loom large.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for March 2026 came in surprisingly strong, with payrolls growing by 178,000 (after economists predicted growth of about 65,000). Payroll growth was ...

Canada’s labour market remains weak in 2026, but easing layoffs, resilient spending and labour shortages point to gradual ...

After three ‘lost decades’ of economic performance, wages in Japan showed signs of positive growth in 2024. To deliver sustained increases to real wages, Japan must improve labour productivity growth.

Bank of Canada External Deputy Governor Nicolas Vincent says the country’s labour market is undergoing structural change — as ...