The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

This is a particularly challenging time for developing and presenting a balanced view of the economic outlook and its implications for investors. This is partly due to dramatic changes in trade, ...

Monthly payroll employment growth has been high post-pandemic, with 205,000 jobs added per month on average in 2023. Recent studies show that increases in net immigration led to significant increases ...

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) prioritizes enforcing rules against the use of forced labor and human trafficking.[1] The CBP’s ramped-up enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor ...

Amid an already softening labor market, the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration stance is likely to dampen the U.S. labor supply. A mixed narrative between tighter labor supply and slowing ...

Along a narrow lane in front of a Home Depot in central Broward County, Jorge Villa waited with a group of day laborers, hoping contractors exiting the store might offer them some work. He pulled out ...

A talent shortage has dominated the conversation in multiple industries. The supply chain is no different. Back in January, Descartes Systems released a report called, “How bad is the supply chain and ...

Since its release earlier this year, Chat GPT-4 and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have led to a plethora of speculation about how entire ...

The European Parliament recently adopted a law that will establish a regulatory regime to prohibit any products made using forced labor from being sold within, imported into, or exported from the E.U.

Cory Searcy receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Grant Michelson and Pavel Castka do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...