Justin Lahart

Justin Lahart The numbers that researchers have been using to predict which jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence may be unreliable.

Justin Lahart is an economics reporter based in New York. Previously, Justin was a Heard on the Street columnist and wrote the Ahead of the Tape column.

Hotel housekeepers, commuter rail workers and nurses are among the unionized workers who have notched big wage gains.

Stocks are partying like it’s 1999. Americans haven’t felt this bad in 70 years.

An early Memorial Day had Americans firing up the grill sooner than usual. It might have helped fire up the jobs report, too. Friday’s report showed the economy added a seasonally adjusted 172,000 jobs last month, far more than the 80,000 that economists polled by The Wall Street Journal estimated.

How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare.

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.