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U.S. Hiring Continues at Modest Pace, but Weaknesses Are Evident

By: Talmon Joseph Smith —
The unemployment rate fell in December, but job growth across 2025 was the lowest in five years.
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Jobs Report Shows U.S. Hiring Slowed One Year Into Trump’s Second Term

By: Tony Romm and Ben Casselman —
As economists pointed to some of the president’s policies to explain the latest Labor Department data, White House aides sought to make the case for optimism in the new year.

The December jobs tally showed how President Trump’s agenda may have impacted the economy during his first year back in office.

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The Jobs Report That Wasn’t Leaves Economists Guessing

By: Lydia DePillis —
Policymakers will enter uncharted territory without employment data that the government is expected to withhold because of its shutdown.

The Washington headquarters of the Labor Department, whose Bureau of Labor Statistics would normally be releasing September employment data on Friday.

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Starbucks Workers Begin a Strike in 3 Cities on Friday

By: Noam Scheiber —
The walkout in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle comes after talks between the company and the workers’ union failed to produce an agreement on raises.

The strike is expected to begin in about 15 Starbucks stores and could spread to hundreds by Christmas Eve.

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Remote Work Is Increasingly for The Rich

By: Rachel Greenley —
Remote work is increasingly a right exclusively enjoyed by the most affluent Americans.
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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India

By: Megha Rajagopalan —
Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change.

Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.

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5 Takeaways From an Investigation Into Hysterectomies in India’s Sugar Industry

By: Megha Rajagopalan —
Indebted workers, facing brutal working conditions, are pushed to get hysterectomies as a treatment for routine ailments. Sugar mills disclaim responsibility.

Loading sugar cane to transport it to mills in the Satara district of India’s Maharashtra State in March last year. Laborers often work in couples, paid through contractors.

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Three Ideas to Beat the Heat, and the People Who Made Them Happen

By: Somini Sengupta —
As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.

Hansa Ahir, left, who salvages recyclable waste for a living in Ahmedabad, India, bought an insurance policy to cover her income on days when heat makes it dangerous to work.

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The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump

By: Thomas B. Edsall —
Births and deaths are only part of what makes America turn left or right.

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Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says

By: Steve Lohr —
For some companies, the new technology is an opportunity to enhance productivity and profit. Will their workers benefit as well?

Big banks like Morgan Stanley spend a large percentage of their payrolls on the kinds of jobs most likely to be affected by generative A.I., according to the Burning Glass Institute.

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U.S. Added 216,000 Jobs in December, Outpacing Forecasts

By: Talmon Joseph Smith —
Hiring has throttled back from 2021 and 2022, but last year’s growth was still impressive by longer-term standards.

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Will Voters Send In the Clowns?

By: Paul Krugman —
Why would they think that a party that can’t manage itself can manage the economy?

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University of Pennsylvania R.A.s Vote to Unionize

By: Alan Blinder —
Students have said that they want more benefits for undergraduate workers, including stipends, scheduling policies and protections against discipline.
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New York Is Rebounding for the Rich. Nearly Everyone Else Is Struggling.

By: Stefanos Chen —
The huge income gap between rich and poor in Manhattan is the latest sign that the economic recovery from the pandemic has been lopsided in New York City.

New Yorkers at the lower end of the income spectrum have seen their wages stagnate, and some are working excessively to keep up. Khadijah Bethea was working up to 70 hours a week for catering companies.

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Small-Business Owners in D.C. Area Fear Federal Shutdown

By: Michael Levenson and Christine Hauser —
Once again, the florists, bars, gyms, cafes, dry cleaners and other small businesses that serve federal employees in the District of Columbia and its suburbs are bracing for an economic blow.

Days before a potential government shutdown, David Kirkley, the owner of Union Station Shoe Shine, was worried about the loss of walk-in business from federal workers heading to their jobs.

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Eric Adams Asserts Migrant Crisis Will ‘Destroy New York City’

By: Emma G. Fitzsimmons —
In provocative remarks at a town hall meeting, Mayor Eric Adams said that he did not “see an ending” to the migrant crisis and renewed his push for federal help.

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Labor Groups Target Hyundai — and Biden — Over Transition to Electric

By: Jonathan Weisman —
A coalition of unions and civic groups is pushing one of the world’s largest automakers to protect and train workers in return for federal money under President Biden’s signature laws.

Chung Eui-sun, left, executive chairman of Hyundai Motor Group; Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, center; and José Muñoz, president and chief operating officer of Hyundai at the official groundbreaking for Hyundai’s plant in Ellabell, Ga., in 2022.

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Veteran Studio Negotiator Faces Striking Writers and Actors

By: Brooks Barnes and John Koblin —
Carol Lombardini, the studio voice in union talks, values a low profile. That hasn’t kept striking writers and actors from casting her as a villain.

Carol Lombardini in 2014. Until now, her 14 years as president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had been marked by labor peace.

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