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Companies plan to downsize and use AI

The positions at risk include postal service clerks, executive secretaries and payroll clerks

Salon · Jan 9, 2025

Where web developers are commanding the biggest salaries

Despite a larger tech sector slow down, web developers are still earning relatively robust salaries—but where they live and work is an important factor.

Fortune · May 20, 2024

Corporate America's hiring spree is cooling—economists say we should all take that as a good sign

U.S. job openings dropped to a 32-month low in October, but Indeed Hiring Lab’s director of economic research says the “report should bring abundant holiday cheer.”

Fortune · Dec 5, 2023

10 industries where job openings are declining

The hiring frenzy we saw over the past two years is fading out a bit.

Axios · Apr 5, 2023

Here's what the Fed interest rate hike means for you

The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by a quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest level in 15 years as part of an ongoing effort to ease inflation by making borrowing more expensive

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

The industries where you're most likely to be laid off as a recession looms

Tech layoffs have been making headlines, but that's not the industry with the highest level of layoffs in recent months.

Fortune · Jan 10, 2023

The Great Resignation is cooling off — especially in the tech industry

Big Tech went on a hiring binge over the last year. Now the diet begins.

Axios · Oct 31, 2022

The Beyoncé effect: 'Break My Soul' propels '90s star Robin S and the Great Resignation

Nineties hit-maker Robin S is basking in the glory of the Beyoncé effect, a phenomenon that Bey's new single "Break My Soul" has bestowed upon the veteran artist.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 23, 2022

Job market power is swinging back to employers

"It's not that workers have lost power, it's just that they're not increasingly gaining it."

Axios · Jun 23, 2022

Falling jobless rate is set to complicate Fed’s inflation fight

The U.S. unemployment rate probably fell to 3.5% in April, matching the lowest reading since the 1960s, and many economists expect it to keep declining — potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation.

Tribune News Service · May 5, 2022