Against all odds, the U.S. job market is in a good place. Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, blowing past analyst forecasts and sustaining the healthy pace of payroll gains from the two prior months ...

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Scan the topline numbers of this month’s jobs report, and you’ll wind up with two wildly different impressions. The first – that the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July – is bad news. We expected a gain ...

WHEN UNEMPLOYMENT fell to 3.7% in September, the lowest in almost 50 years, it was hard to know whether to cheer or tremble. A white-hot labor market means it’s easy to get a healthy raise, which many ...

Lower immigration has brought labor supply in line with shaky demand, but economists worry that such a slow-moving job market is at risk of toppling over. Credit...Igor Bastidas Supported by By Lydia ...