It's the first full week of 2026, and markets will be tuned in for Friday's timely release of the December jobs report.

Louisiana’s job market showed modest improvement over the past year, but the state's economy remains mostly stagnant, an LSU Shreveport economist says. Louisiana’s unemployment rate fell to 4.

The federal government intends to release the much-anticipated September jobs report on Thursday, November 20. The government shutdown, which at 43 days was the longest in U.S. history, had delayed data on inflation, job creation, and GDP growth, which ...

Exclusive: BLS confirms 25% staff exodus and 40% leadership vacancies to Benzinga, raising fears of "iffy" economic data.

The third possibility is the most intriguing: Both data sets are broadly correct. G.D.P. really is booming — but it is being produced with little or no additional labor. If so, productivity growth in the third quarter must have been extraordinarily strong, roughly matching the G.D.P. growth rate given flat aggregate work hours.

The government shutdown delayed the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, “arguably the most important piece of information” for the Federal Reserve to review before its meeting at the end of the month, according to Bank of America Global Research ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown that began Wednesday will deprive policymakers and investors of economic data vital to their decision-making at a time of unusual uncertainty about the direction of the U.S. economy. The absence will be felt ...

Economist Justin Wolfers issued a stark warning in a recent CNN appearance, arguing that the U.S. is effectively operating as “two economies” where a massive Artificial Intelligence boom is concealing significant weakness in all other sectors.