Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The latest jobs report warns policymakers that immigration ...
The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...
The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...
As millions of Americans gather Monday to celebrate Labor Day, federal data shows how President Trump's immigration policies are reshaping the U.S. workforce. The number of immigrant workers in the ...
Evidence suggests Trump administration immigration policies are shrinking the size of the immigrant labor force, and the broader U.S. labor pool in recent months, according to economists CNBC spoke ...
The share of Americans actively in the workforce hit a new low in June, extending a stretch of workers increasingly exiting employment or the job search. Continued unemployment claims - which count ...
This story has been updated. While national job growth has weakened, growth in Connecticut is stable, albeit low, according to new numbers released Thursday. Employers in the state added 900 jobs in ...
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