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Workforce Economics
Data, trends, and analysis on the labor market for experienced professionals. What's actually happening, not what the press release says.
Hiring Signals
What employers are actually looking for, where the opportunities are forming, and how to position yourself to find them.
Cultural Dispatches
The broader conversation about work, identity, and what it means to be experienced in a culture that worships youth. Honest. Sometimes uncomfortable.
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April 9, 2026 · Edition 03
The Brief: April 9, 2026
178,000 jobs added. February revised to -133K. The agency that cut 40% of its workforce just posted 400 openings.
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April 9, 2026
178,000 jobs added. February got worse. The government is hiring the people it just fired.
+178K
Mar Jobs
-133K
Feb Rev
400
Rehires
40%
Cut Prior
Workforce Economics
Hiring Signals
Cultural Dispatches
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Previous Issues
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April 2, 2026 · Edition 02
The Brief: April 2, 2026
The labor market is quietly reorganizing itself around certainty rather than volume, and the data proves it.
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March 26, 2026 · Edition 01
The Brief: March 26, 2026
The workforce conversation nobody else is having, what the data says about experienced talent, and why the infrastructure problem is also the opportunity.
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