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Foreign-Born Women Are Disappearing From the Labor Force
In early 2024, the labor force participation rate of college-educated, prime-age, foreign-born women jumped 5 percent above ...
Labor Market Is Slowing, but Still in Balance
One of the critical economic reports this week will be Friday’s employment data, which economists expect will show that ...
How Labor Challenges And Robotics Are Reshaping Service Operations
Robotic solutions are no longer just prototypes, but practical, cost-effective tools capable of handling repetitive and even ...
Fed Chair Powell: Labor market is 'quite solid' it's the best data we have on the economy
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell answers questions after the Fed’s decision to leave the Federal Funds Rate unchanged in ...
Fed Chair Powell: Labor market is still imbalanced
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell answers questions after the Fed’s decision to leave the Federal Funds Rate unchanged in ...
Labor Department looking to lighten workplace regulation with sweeping rules changes and repeals
The Labor Department is seeking to pull back on the regulation of workplaces by rewriting or repealing more than 60 "obsolete ...
Consumers Perk Up in July, Express Concern About Labor Market
Also Tuesday, the Labor Department said that the number of open jobs in June was 7.4 million, continuing a slow descent and ...
How to Attract and Retain Gen-Z Amid the Impending Labor Shortage
Unlike older generations, Gen Z is far more choosy about selecting jobs. For candidates, it’s a buyer's market, and ...
The Labor Department has suddenly stopped funding a senior job training program
Goodwill, Easterseals and other nonprofit organizations say thousands of low-income seniors could soon be unemployed because funding hasn’t come through for a decades-old federal job training and ...
Labor Department aims to repeal more than 60 regulations in deregulation effort
Critics are raising concerns the Labor Department’s proposal to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations will ...