The stock market has been hot but the job market has been cool, potentially leading some older workers to simply head for the exits sooner than they expected. Friday’s jobs data showed that the overall labor force participation rate ticked down to 61.4% in July, the lowest since early 2021 when the economy was still
“I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” Zuckerberg wrote in an essay posted to Meta’s website Monday. “The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently
But there’s another critical group keeping planes moving on time—and they’re facing a dire shortage: aviation maintenance technicians. Some 83% of technicians are expected to retire or leave the profession globally over the next decade, according to the 2025 CAE Aviation Talent Forecast. By 2034, that translates to a need of about 416,000 new aircraft
New research from Indeed shows that some of the fastest-growing tech jobs are now electricians, installers, maintenance workers, and engineers building the data centers that power AI. Data center job postings have more than doubled over the past two years, even as overall US job openings fell. Today, six out of every 1,000 US job
Every wave of technological change seems to arrive with a familiar prediction: This time, jobs are going away for good. The effect of automated teller machines (ATMs) on the bank teller profession reveals a more nuanced reality. When ATMs became widespread in the 1980s, many people assumed bank tellers would soon become obsolete. They were
As the Trump administration continues to purge hundreds of thousands of workers from the country, Americans aren’t simply taking their places. Instead, their jobs appear to be disappearing with them. The economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, yet the unemployment rate went down as the workforce shrank. America’s emerging deportation economy may account for the