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Back in May 2015, the US Office of Personnel Management — the agency in charge of coordinating the recruitment of federal employees — quietly discontinued a mobile app meant to make it easier to find and apply for government jobs. The app, which was designed as an extension of the official USAJOBS.gov online job search site, had previously been touted as evidence of the Obama administration’s push to adopt a path-breaking digital government strategy. The app no longer exists. The system was taken offline, a spokesperson for OPM told FedScoop, after a redesign of the regular USA JOBS website incorporated a new, mobile-first design. Today, a page that used to focus on mobile apps like the USA JOBS app redirects to the USAJOBS.gov help center, while a link to usa.gov site touting the system now displays a “Page Not Found” notice. The OPM spokesperson did not say how many used the original app before it was shut down.  But a fake with...

Agencies have a new way to connect with qualified early-career workers and move them from the Pathways Program into full-time federal jobs. Two new “talent programs” on USAJobs, which the Office of Personnel Management launched this week, aim to connect agency hiring managers with Pathways Program graduates eligible to transfer to a different agency once completing the program. Hiring managers can use the new platform to find lists of both interns and recent graduates who have finished the Pathways Program and are now looking for a permanent federal position. The lists of candidates are available to federal HR staff once they log in to the agency talent portal on USAJobs. “These talent programs allow agencies to reach out to promising individuals eager to advance their federal careers,” OPM Associate Director for Workforce Policy and Innovation Veronica Hinton wrote Wednesday in a memo to agency HR directors. “They facilitate a way for agencies to effectively identify Pathways interns or recent graduates to provide them...

The U.S. economy saw job creation cool sharply heading into the summer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.Nonfarm payrolls for June increased by a seasonally adjusted 57,000 for the month, slower than the downwardly revised 129,000 added in May and worse than the 115,000 Dow Jones consensus forecast.The unemployment rate, however, dropped to 4.2%, slightly ahead of the 4.1% where it was a year ago.The move lower was largely due to a slump in the labor force participation rate, which dropped 0.3 percentage point to 61.5%, the lowest since March 2021. Household employment plummeted during the month, with 507,000 fewer people reported at work. A broader unemployment measure that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons declined by 0.2 percentage point to 7.9%.Prior months also saw significant downward revisions — the May total, which had been much stronger than economists had anticipated, was cut by 43,000, while April's figure came down 31,000 to 148,000 as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices and more uncertainty about America's future. In his State of the Union address less than two weeks ago, the Republican president confidently told the country: "The roaring economy is roaring like never before." The latest batch of data on jobs, pump prices and the stock market suggests that Trump's roar has started to sound far more like a whimper. There is a gap between the boom that Trump has predicted and the volatile results he has produced — one that could set the tone in this year's midterm elections as he tries to defend his party's majorities in the House and Senate. With Trump's tariffs drama ongoing, the war in Iran has suddenly created inflationary concerns regarding oil and natural gas. To the White House, it is still early in the year and...

After a week of a nasty trade war with Canada, a worse-than-expected inflation report and a hawkish speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, the economy deals with something more prosaic this week.Multiple reports from the private sector and the federal government will provide updates to the state of the labor market. Friday is the big day, with the August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics expected to show a gain of around 50,000. That would be a shift from the unexpected loss of 23,000 jobs in July.But some see the possibility for another negative number.“Payrolls likely fell for a second consecutive month in August,” Comerica Bank Chief Economist Bill Adams wrote on Monday morning. “The government ended temporary protected status for over 300,000 Haitians on July 27, also canceling their work authorization; 100,000 to 200,000 had been in the labor force.”The Best Cartoons on Donald Trump“The unemployment rate probably held steady despite lower payrolls because the workers...

Gold prices remained subdued on Tuesday as traders assessed Middle East tensions and awaited key U.S. labour market data due this week that could shape expectations for Federal Reserve monetary policy.Christopher Furlong | Getty ImagesGold prices remained subdued on Tuesday as traders assessed Middle East tensions and awaited key U.S. labour market data due this week that could shape expectations for Federal Reserve monetary policy.Spot gold was down 0.3% at $4,437.10 per ounce by 0235 GMT, after hitting its lowest level since August 19 in the previous session.U.S. gold futures edged up 0.1% to $4,485.30.Key U.S. data this week include job openings, the ADP employment report and nonfarm payrolls data that will be scrutinized for clues on labor market health and the interest rate outlook.Spot gold scaled a more than three-month high last week before tumbling more than 3% on Friday after Chair Kevin Warsh said the Fed will "have work to do" if policymakers don't get the confidence they need that inflation is heading down to 2%.Gold has been pressured by "Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole...

Photo by BeInCrypto AI has trimmed US monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs over the past year, according to new research from Goldman Sachs economists, nudging the unemployment rate up by 0.1 percentage point. The analysis separates jobs at risk of being replaced by AI from those where the technology augments human workers. That distinction reveals a far more uneven labor market than headline figures suggest. The Jobs AI Is Replacing The study from Goldman Sachs economist Elsie Peng combines a displacement score with an IMF complementarity index. The result pinpoints roles where AI substitutes for workers rather than simply overlapping with them. Telephone operators, insurance claims clerks, and...

It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you search for jobs on USAJOBS. For starters, even searching for open positions at just the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) returns thousands of results. Luckily, USAJOBS has several very effective filtering options that can help you narrow down your options. Here are six tips to tailor your VA job search and get the best results for your needs.   Start with the VA Careers search function. By using the built-in search on the homepage, you’ll automatically filter your search to only include VA jobs.   Search by location. If relocating isn’t an option for you, adjust your filters to only include results where you could feasibly accept a job. Within your USAJOBS search, you can even search by multiple locations at once or by the distance from a specific location.   Tailor to hiring paths. In addition to filtering out job postings that you may not be eligible for, tailoring your search to specific hiring paths can also highlight...

As US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Friday declared that "America's economic comeback is on full display" and the country's "workers are winning again" due to what the business press and top newspapers called a "strong" March jobs report, some economists stressed the importance of looking beyond the topline figure and one month of data.The US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that employers added 178,000 jobs last month, with gains in construction, healthcare, and transportation and warehousing, and declines in the federal government. The unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.3%, with 7.2 million people officially jobless."Folks, today's jobs report is not good," declared Heidi Shierholz, president of the think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI). She pointed to average job growth over the past two months, the reason for the drop in unemployment ("people leaving the labor force"), slowing wage growth, and the fact that "the effects of our war in Iran aren't even in these numbers yet."EPI senior economist Elise...

Stuart Alderoty, Ripple’s chief legal officer, has linked the passage of the CLARITY Act to potential job creation and broader economic growth in the United States."A vote for Clarity is a vote for jobs and economic growth," Alderoty wrote on X.This comes after the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) published new research examining crypto’s contribution to the U.S. labor market.  Ripple Exec: Clarity Act Can Unlock More US Jobs Ripple Pledges Significant Donation to Nepal The report, which was produced in partnership with Pragmatic Policy Group, estimates that the crypto industry supports 232,000 jobs across the country in 2026.Of those, around 34,000 are direct positions at crypto companies such as Ripple and Coinbase. Another 75,000 jobs are supported by suppliers and contractors serving the industry, including law firms, cloud-computing providers and accounting businesses.  ...