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Governor Hochul and Labor Leaders Announce Maximum Weekly Benefit Increase for Unemployed Workers

Governor Hochul and Labor Leaders Announce Maximum Weekly Benefit Increase for Unemployed Workers

Assemblymember Monique Chandler-Waterman said, “This achievement is a clear win for working-class New Yorkers. For too long, unemployed workers have been forced to survive on outdated and inadequate benefits, but no longer. Increasing the maximum weekly benefit from $504 to $869 is a bold and necessary step forward that will provide thousands of families with the stability, dignity, and financial …

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Short-Term Inflation Expectations Continue to Tick Up; Labor Market Expectations Deteriorate

NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the September 2025 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that households’ inflation expectations increased at the short- and longer-term horizons and were unchanged at the medium-term horizon. Despite a small rebound in the expected job finding rate, labor market expectations continued to deteriorate with consumers reporting …

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Wall St slips after NY Fed survey stokes labor market concerns – Reuters

Wall St slips after NY Fed survey stokes labor market concerns  Reuters US stock futures cool after Wall St rally as traders await Fed cues By Reuters  Investing.com Dow’s win streak in jeopardy  MarketWatch Dow Jones slides by 0.8% against positive open  Business Post Dow Jones Index Today: DJIA Stumbles on Sluggish Jobs Data amid Stock Bubble Fears  TipRanks Source link

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There’s no jobs report today. So here’s what we know about the US labor market

There’s no jobs report today. So here’s what we know about the US labor market

On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report. Instead, the agency behind the market-moving release — data that has starkly become even more important, given economic uncertainty — is almost entirely dark due to the federal shutdown. There will be no more employment data until the government …

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Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs – The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs – The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs  The Budget Lab at Yale AI is not yet replacing workers in the US, researchers find  CNN Over the last decade, we’ve invested in over 20 unicorns. The machines will take millions of jobs—but they’ll never lead like a human can  Fortune US jobs market yet to be seriously disrupted …

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White House withdraws Antoni’s nomination to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics

White House withdraws Antoni’s nomination to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics

E. J. Antoni, Heritage Foundation economist and former economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Courtesy: Texas Public Policy Foundation The Trump administration has withdrawn its nomination of conservative economist E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the White House said on Tuesday. President Donald Trump nominated Antoni last month to lead the bureau, which is part …

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White House withdraws controversial pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics – The Washington Post

White House withdraws controversial pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics  The Washington Post White House Withdraws Nomination of E.J. Antoni, Trump’s Pick to Lead BLS  The New York Times Trump pulls pick to lead US jobs data agency  BBC White House withdraws E.J. Antoni’s nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics  NBC News Donald Trump pulls ally EJ Antoni’s nomination to lead …

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Trump pulls nominee to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics

Trump pulls nominee to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a White House official and an AP source who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the action, which has yet to be publicly announced. The White House official declined to say the reasons for withdrawing the …

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