Even before the pandemic, PYMNTS noted that 32% of workers participated in the gig economy in some way, either to supplement their incomes, or to...
Economists at Goldman Sachs have lowered the likelihood of a U.S. recession. As Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Aug. 17), the banking giant now gives an...
New U.S. unemployment claims have reached their highest level in close to a year. According to Labor Department data released Thursday (Aug. 1), jobless claims...
Will we look back at today as the turning point in the battle against the pandemic — not in terms of vaccines or flattened curves,...
Despite Friday’s (May 8) grim unemployment report, which revealed that the number of Americans who have lost their jobs has quadrupled since February, there is...
The latest jobless report illustrates the devastation caused by COVID-19, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the worst unemployment numbers in the nation’s history....
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cripple the U.S. economy, another 3.169 million people filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 2. Total...
COVID-19 continues to take its toll on the nation’s workforce as the number of private-sector jobs fell by a record 20.2 million from March to...
The nation’s hiring boom that began more than two years ago is over, a casualty of COVID-19, as the number of workers who have lost...