As the White House comes under fire for allegedly using Signal to discuss sensitive foreign policy plans, the encrypted messaging platform has now come into the spotlight. Although the government has ...

Economists, investment advisors and political strategists are closely watching the unemployment rate. But few commentators acknowledge just how faulty the employment statistics are. One key problem is ...

Last month we looked at 10 college degrees that see high unemployment, and the problem isn’t basketweaving. A number of affected majors are so-called STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and ...

There are cracks emerging in America’s strong job market. The number of “discouraged workers” jumped 21% in a month, according to the Labor Department. “They are the ones that believe that there were ...

Low unemployment is not drawing discouraged workers back into the job hunt, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City that undercuts one of the positive narratives about ...

The Springfield News-Sun is committed to providing readers with news about jobs and the region’s economy. We talked with local and state experts about the size of the region’s workforce and its ...

Some of the numbers in Friday’s report on the February employment situation suggest that the labor market may be softening a bit. To wit: The number of people who basically said they’re stuck in ...