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Recruiters will speak with job seekers at Appalachia State University Internship and Job Fair in Boone, North Carolina, USA on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIf you can’t eagerly monitor the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly employment reports and it seems like the first Friday of the month wasn’t the same, don’t worry. You probably didn’t miss much.The BLS is in darkness as it closes in Washington, but other reports besides government data suggest that the labour market has just been planted in September.Dow Jones’ consensus forecast was stable at 4.3% unemployment, with a growth…

Students will line up and wait before the start of a career fair at the New York University School of Polytechnic Engineering in New York’s Brooklyn area.Michael Nuggle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith a Georgetown degree and several internships under her belt, Christina Salvadore was now thinking she would begin a career in the fashion and beauty industry of New York City. Problem: She can’t find a job.The 23-year-old has not been able to win a full-time role despite filling out hundreds of applications and taking dozens of networking calls since graduating in the spring. She is currently working over…

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WASHINGTON – On the second day of the closure, Senate majority leader John Tune (Rs.D.) called it “silly,” saying that negotiations with his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer “we don’t intend to achieve much.”In an interview with NBC’s Tom Llamas, which airs Thursday night, Thune said Friday afternoon there is another opportunity to join Republicans to vote for a clean, short-term bill to reopen the government.”I suspect we’re probably going to cross the road on the floor. We’re both often on the floor. Our office isn’t that far apart. So if he wants to chat, he knows where to find…

Job Fair Signs where job seekers arrived at Appalachia State University Internship and Job Fair in Boone, North Carolina, USA on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSeparate labor market reports on Thursday showed that unemployment rates remained largely unchanged in September, but both layoffs and employment rates slowed.Unemployment levels barely moved at 4.34%, according to a relatively new data indicator compiled by the Chicago Federal Reserve. This represents little change since August, but was only 0.01% points from moving to 4.4%, the highest level since October 2021.In September, the Central Bank District announced it would…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bescent spoke to the news media on April 9, 2025 about the latest tariff announcement from President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, D.C.Rear Miris | ReutersTreasury Secretary Scott Bescent told CNBC’s “Scoobox” on Thursday that government shutdowns could undermine US economic growth.”This is not a way to debate, not a way to shut down the government and lower GDP,” Bescent said in a live interview. “We were able to see a hit to GDP, a hit to growth, a hit to Working America.”Cabinet officials spoke on the second day of the government’s closure…

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will speak at a press conference following a two-day meeting at the Federal Reserve Committee held in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2025. Chip somodevilla | Getty ImagesIf questions remained about whether the Federal Reserve would cut key interest rates later this month, it is possible that the budget loggerhead, a few blocks away in the country’s capital, has solidified the move.Especially if the impasse grows past days, Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow central bankers will likely make a mistake on the paying side.”The data delays associated with the US government closures are what…

Private pay saw the biggest drop in two and a half years during September, weakening further signs of the labor market exacerbating data blackouts following the US government shutdown.The company emitted 32,000 seasonally adjusted jobs for the month, the largest slide since March 2023. The economists surveyed by Dow Jones were looking for a 45,000 increase.In addition to the September decline, the number of salary figures in August was revised to 3,000 losses from the initially reported 54,000 increase.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September non-farm salary report has not been released, and the Department of Labor does not issue a…