Job vacancies in Britain climbed to a record in August, rising above 1 million for the first time, as the labor market continued its uneven recovery, according to data released […]
Unemployment Benefits Expire for Millions Without Pushback From Biden
WASHINGTON — Expanded unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during the pandemic expired on Monday, setting up the abrupt cutoff of assistance to 7.5 million people as […]
Many Pandemic Retirees Weren’t Ready. How to Cope if You’re One of Them.
Andrea Jones hadn’t yet settled on a date to retire from her customer service job at United Airlines when Newark airport started looking like a ghost town in March 2020. […]
Opinion | It’s Morning in Joe Biden’s America
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Last Tuesday President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers published a blog post warning everyone not to make too much of any one month’s employment report. […]
Opinion | How to Keep the Economy Booming — And Meet the Demand for Workers
In recent economic news, optimists and pessimists could both find evidence to support their outlooks. The May jobs report showed a gain of 559,000 jobs in May and a decline […]
Opinion | Republicans, Don’t Ignore the Evidence on ‘Labor Shortages’
Talk of labor shortages is everywhere. That is to say, many economic commentators and policymakers have been bemoaning the supposedly alarming reports of a lack of workers to fill the […]
Was the Jobs Report Good? It’s in the Eye of the Beholder.
With Americans divided over who bears credit for the economic recovery, we spoke with our reporter Ben Casselman about the latest job numbers. By Giovanni Russonello How smoothly is the […]
Opinion | Yes, Big Checks for the Jobless Slowed Jobs Growth
The hopes for a booming pandemic recovery — growth led by jobs gains in the millions every month — were dealt a blow in recent weeks by a disappointing April […]
Unemployment Pay May Again Require a Job Search. Is It Too Soon?
A tenet of the American unemployment system has been that anyone collecting benefits, in good times and bad, must look for work. That quid pro quo changed early in the […]
Opinion | Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans in His Grip
By Thomas B. Edsall Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the priorities of the Democratic Party began to […]