The real threat of a dockworker strike at ports across the US east and Gulf coasts come October 1 could knock supply chains out of synch through to 2025, according to new research from Copenhagen. […]
The number of upstream and oilfield services jobs is flatlining and has started to fall. The hiring slump is not because production is falling. Efficiency and technological advances in fracking services, as well as the […]
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Payrolls at employers rose by 114,000 in July, below the growth in June and May. Back in April, job growth was even lower (108,000), and we went through the same handwringing. This […]
The Biden administration hung its hat on supposedly blockbuster monthly job gains. But data show those numbers overestimated job growth by almost 800,000 in 2023. About 1 in 4 jobs that were supposedly added last […]
Electric vehicles are gaining ground in Nevada, with new cheaper models and federal incentives enticing drivers away from gasoline-dependent transportation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon issue updated pollution limits for […]
(Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday unveiled final rules for new clean energy subsidies in an effort to make jobs and wages in green industries competitive with those in oil and gas. The […]
Every first Friday of this year (here, here and here) we have spent hours deconstructing the glaring propaganda peddled by Biden’s Labor Department, meant to show just one thing – how “strong” the economy is under the current […]
The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy future at a crossroads, Republicans […]
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has revealed that the UK is facing significant challenges in meeting its offshore wind targets, with potential repercussions for jobs, revenue and its net zero […]
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Look, today’s jobs report shows why we don’t get too excited about the month-to-month squiggles in the jobs data (blue lines in the charts below). The labor market doesn’t turn around from […]
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