91.2—the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index climbed to this level in June, a 0.6-point gain that masks a growing divergence between current labor anxieties and future optimism. While the headline figure showed resilience compared to May’s downwardly revised 90.6, the underlying data revealed
The flickering Slack notification that usually signals a new sprint is being replaced by a formal HR calendar invite for thousands of tech workers this week. This digital cooling became official on June 4 when the U.S. Department of Labor reported initial jobless
U.S. job vacancies surged to 7.6 million in April, defying economist expectations of a cooling labor market and maintaining a tight ratio of 1.5 openings for every unemployed person. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), released Wednesday, June 3,