The federal government just confirmed the March 2026 jobs count was overstated. A preliminary estimate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds the U.S. economy had 79,000 fewer nonfarm jobs on the books that month than the monthly payroll survey had reported, with the private-sector shortfall running more than twice as deep. For anyone gauging…

The federal government’s monthly read on the job market flagged something narrower than the usual headline this week: hiring in professional and business services — the broad category covering law firms, accounting practices, consultants, administrative support and temp-staffing agencies — dropped by 188,000 in July, even as most other parts of the report barely moved.…

The same White House document that would freeze civilian federal pay for 2027 does the opposite for the youngest members of the armed forces. Buried in the back half of an alternative pay plan built around holding General Schedule salaries flat sits a directed increase for military basic pay, and the biggest number in it…

A 2.7 percent raise sounds like real progress until the same government report that measured it also measures what that raise could actually buy. For the second quarter of 2026, the two numbers point in opposite directions, and the gap between them is the story. The Gap Between the Raise You See and the Raise…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps a single number that answers a question most paychecks can’t: out of everything the economy actually produces, how much of it ends up in workers’ pockets rather than somewhere else. That number just hit its lowest point in a series that stretches back to 1947, and the agency that…

Every autumn, a decades-old formula quietly tells federal agencies how much General Schedule employees are due to see in their paychecks the following January. For 2027, that formula pointed toward a 3.1 percent across-the-board raise on top of a locality pay adjustment averaging 20.6 percent nationwide. On August 26, the White House sent Congress an…

Disney is offering a group of its longest-tenured executives a way to leave voluntarily, with enhanced benefits, rather than wait to see whether they are caught in the next round of job cuts. An internal memo circulated August 24 opens the offer to executives who are at least 50 years old and have worked at…

Starbucks is cutting more than 200 corporate positions at its Seattle headquarters, and more than half of that group is not a typical layoff at all — it is a group of employees who were asked to relocate to a new company office in Nashville and said no. A WARN notice filed around August 20…