A new Biden Labor Department rule aims to steer the retirement funds of 152 million Americans toward companies with woke policies on climate change and other "environmental, social and governance" goals.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/dont-let-biden-co-force-your-nest-egg-to-be-invested-in-woke-only-companies/

Data from the U.S. Labor Department overnight showed monthly producer prices had accelerated in January and the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits had unexpectedly fallen last week.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/global-shares-sink-dollar-soars-on-rate-hike-outlook/article_aefb7ca9-9d4f-5c7e-afe0-9fb408e44664.html

ForUsAll sued the Labor Department over its cryptocurrency warning.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/03/02/groundbreaking-crypto-index-401k-opens-up-7-trillion-market-beyond-bitcoin-and-ethereum-after-huge-price-crash/

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 245,000 for the week ended April 15, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/us-weekly-jobless-claims-edge-up-mid-atlantic-factory-activity-slumps/article_65a2a186-7139-58c4-9b01-47e575c8e6cf.html

Jobs numbers soared far past analysts’ forecasts on Friday, when the Labor Department reported that employers added 517,000 jobs in January on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/business/the-week-in-business-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html

Joelle Gamble, chief economist at the Labor Department, will become a deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2023/02/ap-source-biden-to-name-brainard-to-head-economic-council/

Meanwhile, weekly filings for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 to 248,000, according to the Labor Department.

Source: https://www.limaohio.com/news/business/2023/07/07/us-job-market-shows-fresh-strength/

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 236,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said, compared with the 239,000 expectation of economists surveyed by Reuters.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/us-yields-and-dollar-climb-after-jobs-report-3404136?cid=cna_flip_070214

On a 12-month basis, the consumer price index moved up by 3.2% versus 3% the month prior, according to data from the US Labor Department.

Source: https://qz.com/increasing-us-housing-costs-are-stopping-inflation-from-1850724193

On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose just 0.1% last month from October and 3.1% from a year earlier.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5553134/wholesale-inflation-in-us-slowed-further-last-month-signaling-that-price-pressures-continue-to-ease/

Other data from the Labor Department on Thursday showed a marked slowdown in labor costs in the second quarter, thanks to a sharp rebound in worker productivity.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/us-labor-market-still-strong-worker-productivity-rebounds/article_a3679d9b-43e5-5cb6-979a-1c947f183b65.html

The expansion of social compliance audits comes as the Labor Department has shrunk, with staffing levels now so low that it would take more than 100 years for inspectors to visit every workplace in the department’s jurisdiction once.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/migrant-child-labor-audits.html

The fact is that market rates surging in the wake of a better-than-expected jobs report from the ADP but didn’t drop significantly after the soft Labor Department employment report.

Source: https://investorplace.com/market360/2023/07/looking-back-and-looking-forward/

The Labor Department also reported that export prices dropped 2.6% in December, declining for a sixth straight month.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/u-s-import-prices-rebound-export-prices-fall/article_ca55735d-fc64-5645-a289-f0d480239b37.html

The Labor Department declined to comment on meetings or discussions with Hyundai.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/hyundai-talks-us-labor-department-over-alabama-child-labor-3264406?cid=cna_flip_070214

The Labor Department predicts that the size of Maine’s workforce will peak in 2024 and then slowly decline.

Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/06/opinion/editorials/outlook-maines-workforce-isnt-dire-xoasq1i29i/

The Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. applications for jobless claims were 261,000 for the week ending June 3, an increase of 28,000 from the previous week’s 233,000.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/06/08/us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-highest-since-october-2021/

The Labor Department report suggested that America's long streak of stronger-than-expected job gains may be over.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67306506?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

The Labor Department report though was grossly out of sync with ADP’s report, noting the creation of a total of 187,000 non-farm payroll jobs.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4625245-boe-asks-bernanke-review-economic-forecast?source=feed_all_articles

The Labor Department that nearly half the agricultural work force is undocumented, but the population in the 2010s because of increased border enforcement and stepped-up deportations.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/business/economy/immigration-labor.html