Americans Are Coming Back to the Labor Force
But Teachers Still Aren’t Coming Back to School The labor market remained remarkably resilient in August, with broad gains. Payrolls swelled by 315k in August—about twice the 2019 monthly average gain (164k). A modest slowdown
The Labor Market Kept Soaring in July
Job seeker sentiment cooled in August, according to the ZipRecruiter Job Seeker Confidence Index, but it may be influenced by headlines about layoffs and hiring freezes more than by the facts on the ground. As
The Job Market Keeps Firing on All Cylinders
With 528,000k jobs added in July, the job market persevered like a bird in the wind, despite a 75-basis-point interest rate hike, $5 gasoline, and a bear market. Amid stiff headwinds and rising uncertainty, strong
Job Market Keeps Humming, But Shows Signs of Cooling
The big picture In today’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Report, released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, hires remained extremely high at 6.4 million, quits remained extremely high at 4.2 million, and layoffs
The July Jobs Report Marks a Full Private Sector Recovery
Today’s jobs report is a milestone marking a more-than-full recovery in private-sector employment. And yet job gains remain far higher than before the pandemic and broadly distributed across the economy, even in the most interest
A Goldilocks Jobs Report: Solid Job Gains, Cooling Wage Growth
The May jobs report was yet another blockbuster with huge job gains: 390k jobs added—almost double the monthly average job gain before Covid. And job gains would have been even higher were they not restrained
April 2022 JOLTS: Job Openings and Quits Remain Near Record Highs, Layoffs Fall to a Record Low
The April JOLTS report released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics points to a robust and vibrant labor market, and the tightest on record. There were 11.4 million job openings—63% more than before
Job Market Continues Running Hot
Today’s jobs report is another scorcher, with large employment gains broadly spread across the economy. The addition of another 428k jobs in April brings the number of jobs added in just the first four months
March 2022 JOLTS: The U.S. Job Market Dials Up the Heat on Employers
Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report for March. Here are the highlights. There is little sign of cooling in what remains the greatest job
5 Ways the Hiring Climate Has Changed Since the Pandemic
Hot job market puts new hires in the driver’s seat, according to new ZipRecruiter survey of 2,000+ Americans hired in the last 6 months Two years after the start of the pandemic, U.S. job seekers