When the Labor Department releases January employment numbers Friday, they’re likely to show that companies, government ...

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More Americans filed unemployment claims last week than the week prior, but the labor market remains healthy and layoffs ...

The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose 2.6% in December from the year before, heating up from November’s 2.4% increase, according to new Commerce Department data released Friday.

Thursday’s report on initial jobless claims shows they remain low, yet “the slow bleed in the labor market appears to be continuing,” according to Renaissance Macro Research’s Neil Dutta. The ...

Defying fears of a pandemic-driven Great Depression and bucking Federal Reserve interest rate hikes as well, the U.S. job ...

Economists forecast a steady pace of hiring, slightly dampened by fires and cold snaps and clouded by annual data adjustments.

U.S. job growth likely slowed in January, partly restrained by wild fires in California and cold weather across much of the ...

The January jobs report, to be released Friday morning by the Labor Department, will provide the first look at employment in ...

The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits in early February rose slightly, but they remained at very low ...

US labor productivity advanced at a firm pace in the fourth quarter, capping another year marked by efficiency gains that ...

The employment data is forecast to show a strong labor market on the eve of the transition to the administration of President Trump.