Unemployment stayed at 6.4% in August, even with higher interest rates and an energy crunch driven by war in the Middle East.

Long COVID, defined by symptoms persisting three months post-SARS-CoV-2 infection, presents a significant global health and economic challenge, with global prevalence estimated at 36% (ranging from ...

It’s a simple problem of arithmetic: The U.S. is not producing enough workers to satisfy the needs of employers. The issue is not new and was already being flagged by trade associations for industries ...

Labor market polarization describes the growing share of employment and wage mass at the extremes of the occupational distribution, with high-skill, high-wage and low-skill, low-wage jobs expanding ...

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In 2023, the United States saw the strongest wave of labor unrest in decades. Punctuated by high-profile auto worker and actors’ union strikes, some analysts see this uptick in organized labor ...

Anthropic's new Economic Scenarios report outlines three AI-driven US economic futures by 2030, with GDP gains as high as ...

Balancing labor supply and employer demand has major implications for workers, families, communities, companies, and governments. Economists and policymakers think a lot about how to maintain this ...

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Keir Starmer rewrote the history books on July 5 last year when he delivered a majority of 174 for Labour in the House of Commons. The scale of the landslide meant it was widely assumed that, as the ...

The Fourth of July commemorates our political freedom—a freedom which without economic freedom is meaningless indeed. Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the ...