Older Americans in their 80s are applying for jobs — and hitting a wall

Noah Sheidlower, Business Insider

Older Americans who can't afford retirement say workplace ageism makes job searching futile. Some take part-time, low-wage work to stay afloat.

Trump Labor Department Supports American Workers With Image of AI-Generated Worker

Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com

What better way to celebrate America's workers than with a fake picture of one?

Trump set to bar college graduates from debt relief program if employers undermine ‘American values’

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Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Jason Lange and Alexandra Alper, Yahoo Entertainment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work...

While Trump secures our border, Wisconsin needs to secure its labor force | Opinion

Scott Mayer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Guest worker programs offer best of both worlds for immigrants and Americans. Programs make it easier for businesses and farms to hire legal migrants.

MacIntyre posts a 64 and builds 5-shot lead over Scheffler at BMW Championship

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Russia is facing 2 major — and seemingly contradictory — labor problems at the same time

Huileng Tan, Business Insider

Russia's jobless rate is at a record low, but "hidden unemployment" is rising.

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)’s Defense Workers Strike After Rejecting Contract Offer

Ashar Jawad, Yahoo Entertainment

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) is among the 11 Best Large Cap Defense Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. The aircraft manufacturer is encountering a major...

Clear-Cut Reasons For Last Month’s Disastrous Jobs Report

Eli Amdur, Contributor, Eli Amdur, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliamdur/, Forbes

Trump sould know better.

Top analyst says the next 5 years could see ‘no growth in workers at all’ and sends a warning about the fate of the U.S. economy

Nick Lichtenberg, Yahoo Entertainment

Investors may want to think twice about betting broadly on a “strongly rising U.S. economic tide,” JPMorgan’s David Kelly writes. Same with lower interest...

IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions

Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July ar…

The Revision Economy And The Retraction Life

Philip Maymin, Contributor, Philip Maymin, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/philipmaymin/, Forbes

A quarter million jobs vanished, yet no one new was fired and no one new quit. Those jobs never existed. Only our estimate of the truth changed, not the truth itself.

Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers

Nate Raymond, Yahoo Entertainment

(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a judge's order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of...

Commissioner of Labor Statistics fired, because labor statistics were not to president’s liking

Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com

The administration disagreed with the jobs count released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, so the administration is firing the commissioner. For NPR, Scott Horsley reports: U.S. employers added j…

The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved

Rogé Karma, The Atlantic

Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There’s a catch.

Rachel Cohen, Vox

Should independent contractors get employment benefits? The question has fueled decades of legal and political battles — and it might finally be coming to an end for the roughly 58 million people who currently work as freelancers, contractors and gig workers …

FAA Wants To Hire Immigrants As Air Traffic Controllers

staff@jalopnik.com (Nicholas Werner), Jalopnik

Surprising no one, the security personnel at the FAA are "losing their minds" at the idea of letting non-citizens into the country's air traffic arteries.

After 599 Take Buyouts, Duke University To Begin Layoffs In August

Michael T. Nietzel, Senior Contributor, Michael T. Nietzel, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/, Forbes

Almost 600 staff members have accepted Duke University’s “voluntary separation incentive,” but that won’t be enough to prevent staff layoffs scheduled to start in August.

Inside the whisper networks where laid-off coworkers job hunt and commiserate

Sarah E. Needleman, Business Insider

Former coworkers are staying in touch by joining invite-only groups to vent, grieve, and help each other job search.

Air traffic controllers say a push to modernize equipment won't fix deeper problems

Joe Hernandez, NPR

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say the Trump administration's focus on new equipment doesn't address problems like grueling schedules and stagnating pay that are hurting morale.

In Wyoming’s mining industry, advocates see profit and peril under Trump

Cy Neff, Al Jazeera English

Donald Trump has championed the mining industry. But workers worry fewer regulations could endanger their safety.

The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations

Nicole Narea, Vox

The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did offer them one solution last week: to replace immigrant farmworkers with Amer…

Worker says she was pushed to falsify safety records and saw employees lose limbs at Trump-aligned meatpacking plant

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How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Stiffed Tipped Workers

Grace Segers, The New Republic

Several of President Donald Trump’s key campaign promises were written into the new Republican law which slashes federal benefits and implements tax breaks for primarily higher-income Americans. One of the more touted provisions, the elimination of federal in…