Paul Keating famously used to say the resident galah in any pet shop was talking about micro-economic policy. These days it’ll be chattering about productivity.

My InsiderSamuel Tombs, Chief US economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, sees a labor market struggling with softening hiring and an accelerating trend of downward revisions. In May, 139,000 jobs ...

LOS ANGELES—Unions, which have felt conflicted lately over how to deal with Trump, found an issue this past weekend over which to confront him: immigration. It came after the head of the state ...

A Los Angeles labor leader who has become a national rallying cry after he was arrested and apparently injured during a protest over an immigration raid last week appeared on Monday in a federal ...

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The Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May, as employers slowed the pace of hiring amid uncertainty over the economy as well as tax and trade policy.

The U.S. labor market showed signs of resilience in May, with employers adding 139,000 jobs amid economic uncertainty that has caused some employers to pause hiring. The unemployment rate held ...

Can we still trust the data coming out of the Trump administration? It’s a question I get all the time — on social media, in comments on my stories, in conversations with friends and ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give a Catholic social ministry group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it gives ...

John Seabrook’s “The Spinach King” is a great American tragedy – about his own family. In this thoughtful, cautionary tale, the longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer reports on how ...

Job openings ticked up unexpectedly in April, when President Donald Trump’s tariffs rocked the financial world and dampened consumer sentiment.

Fourth, he wants to remove fear of failure, blame, and reputation damage, which he said was often the cause of over-regulation. “The result is systems that push decisions upward, delay risk, and ...