The labor force participation rate — how much of the working age population has a job or is looking for one — held at 62.7% percent last month, according to the latest jobs report released Friday.

The unemployment rate is a closely followed indicator, used by businesses, investors, and others to gauge the state of the U.S. economy.

A new labor market analysis based on June 2025 data revealed that a significant number of women have left the U.S. labor force this year. According to the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) review of ...

The US job market continues to chug along despite heightened uncertainty about the economy and how President Donald Trump’s tariffs could shake out. The economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 ...

The American labor force is becoming less American. Newly-released data from the Center for Immigration Studies is sounding the alarm on the declining US labor force, by showing fewer native-born ...

The number of immigrant workers has declined from January through the end of July, preliminary Census data shows.