Full Episode
Thursday, Sep 4
PBS NewsHour
  • Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletters
  • The Latest
  • Politics
    Politics
    • Brooks and Capehart
    • Politics Monday
    • Supreme Court
  • Arts
    Arts
    • CANVAS
    • Poetry
    • Now Read This
  • Nation
    Nation
    • Supreme Court
    • Race Matters
    • Essays
    • Brief But Spectacular
  • World
    World
    • Agents for Change
  • Economy
    Economy
    • Making Sen$e
    • Paul Solman
  • Science
    Science
    • The Leading Edge
    • ScienceScope
    • Basic Research
    • Innovation and Invention
  • Health
    Health
    • Long-Term Care
  • Education
    Education
    • Teachers' Lounge
    • Student Reporting Labs
  • For Teachers
    Education
    • Newshour Classroom
  • About
    • Feedback
    • Funders
    • Support
    • Jobs

We're not going anywhere.

Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on!
Donate now
PBS News

Get news alerts from PBS News

Turn on desktop notifications?

jobs report

  • Full Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletters
  • Live
Tariff-fueled price increases may mean more steel jobs - but will there be enough workers to fill them?

Economy Sep 05

U.S. hiring stalls with just 22,000 jobs added in August

By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

Economy Sep 04

FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York
Wall Street inches higher before the bell ahead of critical jobs data release this week

Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose 0.2% before the opening bell Thursday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged.

By Associated Press

Politics Aug 26

U.S. President Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington
WATCH: Trump celebrates private business job creation while touting federal job cuts

President Donald Trump bragged that he had laid off 84,000 federal workers.

By Associated Press

Politics Aug 12

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a briefing in Washington
WATCH: Asked if Trump administration will continue to release jobs report, Leavitt says ‘I believe that is the plan’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the government will continue to issue the monthly jobs report, which includes the nation’s unemployment rate, despite comments by an administration’s nominee that suggested suspending it.

By Associated Press

Economy Aug 12

A "Now Hiring" sign hangs in the window of a hair salon in Medford, Massachusetts
Why economists are criticizing Trump’s nominee to oversee data on jobs and inflation

President Donald Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni's nomination was quickly met with a cascade of criticism from other economists.

By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak, Associated Press

Aug 02

WATCH: ‘I think their numbers were wrong,’ Trump says after firing BLS head over jobs report

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump says he "did the right thing" by having his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May…

Continue reading

Aug 01

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after dismal employment report

By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.

Continue reading

Jun 06

Hiring slows in U.S. amid uncertainty over Trump’s trade wars

By Leah Willingham, Associated Press

Trump’s aggressive and unpredictable policies – especially his sweeping taxes on imports – have muddied the outlook for the economy and the job market and raised fears that the American economy could be headed toward recession.

Continue reading

May 02

Watch 4:51
Jobs market defies expectations amid fears tariffs could soon spur economic downturn

By Amna Nawaz, Ryan Connelly Holmes

The U.S. labor market beat expectations last month, adding 177,000 jobs as the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2 percent. But the April jobs number was lower than the March tally and some economists are concerned that cracks in the…

Continue watching

Apr 04

Watch 6:44
Fired federal workers struggling to land new jobs in tightening white-collar sector

By Paul Solman, Diane Lincoln Estes

The latest jobs report came in stronger than anticipated, demonstrating again that the job market has been far more resilient than many expected. But some say the data doesn't reflect layoffs underway and that job opportunities are tightening in the…

Continue watching

Jump to the First Page Previous Page
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 19
Next Page Jump to the Last Page

Support Provided By: Learn more

web ad

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Full Episode
Thursday, Sep 4
  • BDO
  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Raymond James
  • Viewers Like You
  • Friends of the News Hour
PBS News

© 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.

PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

Sections

  • The Latest
  • Politics
  • Arts
  • Nation
  • World
  • Economy
  • Science
  • Health
  • Education

About

  • About Us
  • TV Schedule
  • Press
  • Feedback
  • Funders
  • Support
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasts
  • Jobs
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use

Stay Connected

  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • X
  • TikTok
  • Threads
  • RSS

Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Support our journalism

Support for News Hour Provided By

  • BDO
  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Raymond James
  • Viewers Like You