The brief US government shutdown has delayed the official jobs report for January, but the first look at hiring activity in the private sector showed that employment gains sputtered to start the year.

The professional and business services sector, which includes accounting and tax, lost 57,000 jobs last month, the largest ...

The figure reported on Wednesday is below economists’ estimates of an increase of 48,000 jobs and higher than the prior month’s revised reading of a gain of 37,000 jobs.

Economists and bankers say the primary reason for the slowdown in bank lending is stagnation in new investment ...

Private-sector employers added just 22,000 jobs last month, according to payroll processor ADP. It was a slowdown from the previous month’s total of 37,000 that was also revised lower from an original ...

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(CNN) — Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data. Payroll ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted his administration's efforts to curb the size of the federal government's workforce while expanding private sector payrolls. "Since January, 100,000 ...

Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data. Payroll processing ...