Justin Lahart

Unions have scored some high-profile victories, but any real resurgence in organized labor could be a long way off.

Gas Prices Wipe Out More Than a Year of Wage Gains

Big companies keep trumpeting return-to-office mandates, but the amount of time that Americans work remotely is barely budging.

Big companies keep trumpeting return-to-office mandates, but the amount of time that Americans work remotely is barely budging.

Demand for memory chips is pushing prices higher. Will AI’s promise of increased productivity come in time to temper that inflation?

Read more here on how America’s massive artificial-intelligence build-out is beginning to push up prices on everything from smartphones to electricity.

Thursday’s June jobs report was weaker than economists expected. But stepping back, the labor market looks as if it has shaken off the weakness it exhi

The University of Michigan is pushing back and defending its widely tracked consumer sentiment gauge.

Justin Lahart A key survey of American consumers is scraping bottom, showing they've never felt this lousy about the economy, even at the height of recessions or when the Covid pandemic raged.

Justin Lahart The advent of artificial intelligence has led to worries that the U.S. faces a future where there will be too few jobs for workers to fill.