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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.