Whew, The Pre-Shutdown Job Market Wasn’t A Disaster So that’s a relief! Today we got old news — the September jobs report, a much-delayed release of data from the BLS following...
A Fog Warning For The Job Market “What do you do if you’re driving in the fog?” Fed Chair Jay Powell asked rhetorically last week. “You slow down.” The...
Retail Seasonal Hiring Update: A Cooler Winter for Recruiters Checking in on the consumer 2025’s seasonal hiring rush will look different from recent years. Over the past five...
Chicken and Egg: The Global Food-Wage Spiral The decade before the pandemic was marked by low inflation, low interest rates, and weak wage growth. Following the...
Flying Blind: Navigating Data Gaps During A Shutdown The U.S. government is entering its third day of shutdown on Friday, October 3, which was when the September...
Recruiters: Prepare For Mild Labor Market Stagflation The labor market is entering a period of mild “stagflation” — a term popularized in the 1970s that describes...
Warning Signs: Labor Market Reaches An Inflection Point The U.S. labor market is edging towards a downturn. Employment growth is at its weakest point in the post-pandemic...
The AI Talent War Is Heating Up Competition for AI talent has reached extraordinary levels. Reports suggest some early-career researchers are being offered pay packages rivaling...
Sector by Sector: Mapping the Labor Fallout of Trump’s Immigration Agenda In our final segment of this four-part series on immigration, we will discuss the industries and occupations in the...
The Regional Impact of Immigration Policies: Southern Harm In the first two installments of this series on immigration, we looked at the new immigration policies from the...
Modeling the Impacts of Immigration Policy It’s difficult enough to guesstimate the potential impact Trump’s policies will have on immigration, which is what we attempted...
June’s Job Gains Surpass Expectations, But the Trend is Still Cooling The U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, which exceeded consensus estimates for 125,000. The unemployment rate ticked down to...
Trump Policies’ Chilling Effect on Immigration, and What it Means for the Labor Market Immigration in free fall? There is no doubt that we are currently witnessing a historical U-turn on America’s immigration...
Summer Hiring Heats Up, Featuring Some Uncertainty for Recruiters As the summer season kicks into high gear, recruiters are once again facing the complex task of setting hiring...