Why are there so few workers for so many open jobs? It's one of the biggest mysteries about the U.S. economy and helps explain why a big labor shortage is adding to high inflation.

06/12/2025 Despite global gains on combating child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing ...

The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate America is moving in for the kill.

Labor won the national two-party vote against the Coalition by 55.28–44.72, a 3.1% swing to Labor since the 2022 election. This is also Labor’s biggest two-party share since 1943, when they ...

Before ma’amoul were treats served at special occasions, they were simple biscuits that fueled travelers. “‘Ma’amoul’ is not really a fancy word,” says Nawal Nasrallah, an Iraqi food writer and ...

David Huerta, the labor leader whose arrest at a protest last week, after his release from detention outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles, on Monday.

An Education Department spokesperson confirmed the agency signed an agreement with the Labor Department to administer some of the education agency’s career, technical and adult education grants.

Paul Keating famously used to say the resident galah in any pet shop was talking about micro-economic policy. These days it’ll be chattering about productivity.

Let's never knock a summit, but let's not be taken in by the suggestion that the planned August meeting, involving employers, unions and the government, will mark some breakthrough moment.

An international human rights group said that Chinese rare earth minerals are being produced through forced labor as President Trump lauded a Tuesday deal with President Xi Jinping that would ...