Economic coverage written from the employee and employer perspective at once. Topics include wage growth, hiring and layoff data, labor supply in particular trades, and household costs that determine whether workers can afford to move jobs. Each piece connects a national number to a decision being made inside an ordinary company.
Economic coverage written from the employee and employer perspective at once. Topics include wage growth, hiring and layoff data, labor supply in particular trades, and household costs that determine whether workers can afford to move jobs. Each piece connects a national number to a decision being made inside an ordinary company.
Jorge Piedra's anniversary commentary is thin on numbers by design. What the visible record shows about how law firm leadership talks about tenure, partnership and rest.
Michael Hayes · September 24, 2026
The monthly payroll print is a sample-based estimate with a forecast bolted on. Here's what the birth-death model does, when the benchmark fixes it, and how big a normal correction looks.
Lena Fischer · August 15, 2026
Households spent down pandemic savings and borrowed to keep pace. The uncomfortable question is what happens when the buffer runs out.
Lena Fischer · August 10, 2026
Trillion-dollar industrial and infrastructure programs are colliding with a craft-labor supply two decades in the making — and wages tell the story faster than the payroll data.
Lena Fischer · July 18, 2026