New York Times

By Ben Casselman Published September 12, 2024 Past economic cycles show that unemployment starts to tick up ahead of a recession, with wide-scale layoffs coming only later. ...If the economy worsens more than businesses anticipate, they could be forced to shed

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Jim Tankersley, Jeanna Smialek and Joe Rennison contributed reporting. Published APRIL 10, 2023 Read the full article here. Employers added 236,000 jobs as the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases appeared to take a toll. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent.

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