Benefits Now Cost Employers $13.58 Per Hour
For every dollar an employer spends on a private-sector worker, 30 cents never appears in a paycheck. That gap is growing.
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Three Fifths Of The Information Sector's Job Losses Are Movies And Telecom
Information is the sector that uses AI most and is shedding jobs fastest. Break the decline into its six industries and movies and phone companies are three fifths of it.
Only Two of the Last Sixteen Recoveries Started Slower Than This One
Temporary help employment turned up in December 2025, as it has sixteen times since 1990, and payroll growth followed, from losing 38,700 jobs a month to adding 71,300. The median past episode was running at 232,000.
Outside of Recessions, Employers Have Not Left This Many Chairs Empty Since 2003
Employers hired 101 people last year for every 100 who left. In 2019 it was 103, and the difference is 1.3 million jobs that ended without anybody being laid off.