Tight Labor Markets are a Strong Pull Factor for Immigrants International migration is a complex phenomenon caused by many push and pull factors. Push factors, such as economic hardship,...
The Past, Present, and Future of the US Labor Market Today’s jobs report, for January 2025, was not your typical jobs report. Beyond the monthly job gains and unemployment...
Gen Z is Struggling to Find Footing in the Job Market Think of today’s labor market as a ladder. Prime-aged workers are climbing steadily, but our youth are finding the...
The Landing Was Soft. Will Policy Shake It Up? The U.S. labor market added a solid 256,000 net new jobs in December, rounding out a strong year. Despite...
A Decent (but Boring) Report to Round Out 2024 The U.S. economy continued to add payroll jobs at a very healthy pace last month. The data that was...
Recruiters’ Reality is the Labor Market’s Prophecy Co-authored by Sam Kuhn, Economist, Appcast Recruiters play a pivotal role in connecting talent with opportunity, ensuring an efficient...
Trump’s Trio: How Immigration, Tariffs, and Taxes Shape the Economy As the dust of election uncertainty settles, a new wave of uncertainty arises: policy change. In this article, we...
Recruitonomics Swing State Election Analysis: Pennsylvania As we explained in our Arizona piece, Trump is currently expected to win the swing states in the Sun...
Storms and Strikes Shake Up October Jobs Report, but Weakening Continues With the U.S. election just four days away, the October jobs report could have major implications for both voters...
Recruitonomics Swing State Election Analysis: Arizona Thanks to the electoral college, the outcome of the U.S. presidential election will very likely be determined by a...
Top Two Voter Priorities Intertwined: Immigration and the Economy Immigration and border policy have emerged as the forefront issues in the upcoming election, with surprising bipartisan agreement: 96%...
Is This September Report the October Surprise? Last week, Fed Chair Jay Powell said: “Overall, the economy is in solid shape; we intend to use our...
Will Lower Borrowing Costs Rekindle U.S. Manufacturing Jobs? It’s no secret that the manufacturing sector is facing a slowdown in the U.S. Coming out of the pandemic,...
White-Collar Gloom, Blue-Collar Bloom Following a whirlwind of labor market strength over the past few years, the labor market has cooled down considerably...
Data Revisions Subtract More Than 800,000 Jobs: What Now? Revisions smack down job growth The U.S. economy might have created some 800,000 fewer jobs last year than what...