Marcella Boehler is an editor with The Outlaw Ocean Project. This is the third in a six-part series. New installments appear ...

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...

U.S. job growth was unexpectedly solid in June, but nearly half of the increase in nonfarm payrolls came from the government ...

The US job market continues to chug along despite heightened uncertainty about the economy and how President Donald Trump’s ...

The US labor market demonstrated resilience in June with the addition of 147,000 jobs, despite a slowing economic growth. The ...

However, the report showed that hiring fell in May, suggesting that employers, though reluctant to lose staff, are hesitant ...

When the Labor Department on Thursday releases job numbers for last month, they’re expected to show that businesses, ...

The Labor Department, citing budget deficits and claiming poor results, said that it was halting contracts on the 99 private-contractor-operated sites under its purview.

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs in the U.S. remain low despite uncertainty about how ...

The Trump administration’s deregulatory push has landed at the US Labor Department, with the agency advancing a slew of ...

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a ...

US employers added 147,000 jobs in June despite Trump's tariffs, federal layoffs and immigration crackdown; unemployment at 4 ...