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CEO of the top-rated hiring platform says the job market is so bad that candidates are paying $20 to mass apply and driving bosses crazy with spam

By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 27, 2026

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Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades: Skilled trades shaped America’s past. Here’s how they can build America’s future

By Jim Farley, Linda Hubbard, Bayo Ogunlesi and Ruth PoratJuly 21, 2026

Salar al Khafaji stands while Sebastiaan Visser sits on a stool in front of a robotics warehouse

He sold his last company to Palantir. Now he’s betting $32 million that robots can fix construction’s labor crisis

By Lily Mae LazarusJuly 15, 2026

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Black women’s unemployment rate fell. That’s not the good news you think it is

By Katica RoyJuly 14, 2026

The rise of white-collar socialists: ‘A lot of tech workers are working class’

The rise of white-collar socialists: ‘A lot of tech workers are working class’

By Jason MaJuly 11, 2026

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More noncollege-educated men are living at home and falling out of the labor market, forcing a decline in marriages, all thanks to rising rents

By Catherina GioinoJuly 11, 2026

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Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it’s not just people giving up

By Catherina GioinoJuly 8, 2026

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AI’s $2.2 trillion deficit fix is already half fake, economists say

By Tristan BoveJuly 2, 2026

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Economists have found an answer to slowing cognitive decline: Avoid retiring early, study finds

By Sasha RogelbergJuly 2, 2026

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Gen Z graduates are blaming AI for their unemployment woes when they should be looking somewhere else

By Sasha RogelbergJune 25, 2026

Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, economists say

Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, economists say

By Jason MaJune 21, 2026

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Tokens are getting cheaper, but companies are spending even more on AI as a result, top economist warns

By Sasha RogelbergJune 17, 2026

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‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos sees more jobs being created in the new economy, not less

By Catherina GioinoJune 17, 2026

Vietnam’s economy is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Can it make the leap into the ranks of middle-income countries?

Vietnam’s economy is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Can it make the leap into the ranks of middle-income countries?

By Nicholas GordonJune 16, 2026

Bryan Catanzaro sits in a gray chair in front of a blue and green background.

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employee’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers

By Sasha RogelbergJune 14, 2026

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Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers

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By Preston ForeAugust 1, 2026

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Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar

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By Nick LichtenbergJuly 31, 2026

The labor market could become so backward that the economy will have to shed jobs to keep unemployment steady

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By Jason MaAugust 1, 2026