The Labor Department released its August jobs report today, showing that the nation’s employers added 169,000 jobs last month, just slightly below what economists had predicted. The overall ...

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The U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in August, according to the first federal jobs report released since President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of ...

Job openings increased slightly in August, hitting 7.227 million vacancies, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Job openings as a percent of nonfarm employment was ...

MANKATO — The number of jobs in the Mankato area climbed 4.2% in August compared to August of 2024, the biggest year-over-year increase of any of Minnesota’s metropolitan areas other than Rochester.

The Department of Labor reported August job numbers on Friday, and the numbers appeared to be another bad sign for the recovery. The economy lost 54,000 positions in the last full month of summer.

The BLS subtracted a combined 33,000 previously reported job gains from the July and August employment numbers. August payrolls were lowered by 26,000 jobs, resulting in an overall decline of 4,000 ...

A host of alternative jobs data from Wall Street are pointing in the same direction: The U.S. labor market is losing steam. These numbers are getting more attention while the federal government ...

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 119,000 jobs in September, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics belatedly announced Nov. 20 — an unexpectedly high number complicated by downward revisions for ...

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 August according to the latest ...