Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.

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The Long-Term Unemployed Today? College Grads.

For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change.

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In “All The Cool Girls Get Fired,” Oprah, Jamie Lee Curtis and More Share Stories

In a new book, two longtime fashion editors — along with Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric — open up about times they got canned.

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Job Growth Revised Down by Nearly a Million, Updated BLS Data Shows

Preliminary annual revisions could add to political pressure on the agency that produces the data.

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Workers Who Lost Jobs to Trade Needed Help. Washington Cut the Funding.

Trade Adjustment Assistance was supposed to help people whose jobs were threatened by overseas competition, but Congress eroded its support starting in the 1980s.

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Have You Been Unemployed for Six Months or More? We’d Like to Hear From You.

The long-term jobless rate recently hit its highest point in more than three years. Please tell us how this has affected you.

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Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.”

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Employers Pulled Back on Hiring, Adding 73,000 Jobs

The labor market showed signs of weakening, as job gains for the previous two months were also revised lower.

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The Summer Job, a Rite of Passage for Teens, May Be Fading Away

As businesses face economic uncertainty, seasonal work is harder to find, pushing the unemployment rate for teenagers above 13 percent.

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Trump’s Two-Week Iran Notice Gives Markets a Lift

The president said he could take that long to decide whether to join a military fight against Iran. But that does little to quell investor uncertainty.

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