The U.S. Job Market Is Cooling but Not Collapsing (if Private Data Can Be Trusted)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/jobs-unemployment-layoffs-economy.html
The government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggested the labor market has weakened modestly since summer.
Mass Layoffs Are Scary, but Probably Not a Sign of the A.I. Apocalypse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/layoffs-ai-replacement.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/jobs-unemployment-layoffs-economy.html
The government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggested the labor market has weakened modestly since summer.
Mass Layoffs Are Scary, but Probably Not a Sign of the A.I. Apocalypse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/layoffs-ai-replacement.html
US layoffs for October surge to two-decade high, Challenger data shows
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/
Modest jobs growth isn't enough to change the economic narrative — but enough to cast doubt
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/modest-jobs-growth-isnt-enough-to-change-the-economic-narrative--but-enough-to-cast-doubt-110040168.html/
For GenZ-ers, Work is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/opinion/gen-z-work.html
Members of Gen Z get the bad rap of being “unemployable,” because apparently they do not prize achievement for its own sake, or they’d rather be influencers because the internet has broken their brains. Gen Z-ers don’t even deserve this perfunctory slander, because the entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade.
Certainly the job market seems grim in this moment. Michael Madowitz, the principal economist at the Roosevelt Institute, described it as “an awful traffic jam.” “If you’re just out of college, you’re trying to merge into a freeway and nobody is letting you in,” he explained. Employers at companies like Airbnb and Intuit almost sound excited talking to The Wall Street Journal about staying lean and culling the number of employees they have, as long as it creates short-term profits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/opinion/gen-z-work.html
Members of Gen Z get the bad rap of being “unemployable,” because apparently they do not prize achievement for its own sake, or they’d rather be influencers because the internet has broken their brains. Gen Z-ers don’t even deserve this perfunctory slander, because the entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade.
Certainly the job market seems grim in this moment. Michael Madowitz, the principal economist at the Roosevelt Institute, described it as “an awful traffic jam.” “If you’re just out of college, you’re trying to merge into a freeway and nobody is letting you in,” he explained. Employers at companies like Airbnb and Intuit almost sound excited talking to The Wall Street Journal about staying lean and culling the number of employees they have, as long as it creates short-term profits.
ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5575539/ice-immigration-construction-latino-workers
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5575539/ice-immigration-construction-latino-workers
My take from Sept:
A potentially K-shaped economy creates dilemmas for the Fed by Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill - September 12, 2025
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5499218-ai-revolution-job-market/
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5499218-ai-revolution-job-market/