Without health care and social assistance jobs, the U.S. labor market would have seen a plummet of about 570,000 jobs in 2025.

Health-care jobs declined by 28,000 in February, the government said Friday, but in actuality there was no loss of work. The drop in employment, as it turns out, was tied to several major strikes ...

The field does have advantages for workers. Health care jobs are everywhere — rural and urban; in hospitals, neighborhood clinics, and people’s homes. There’s an abundance of lower-paying entry-level ...

WASHINGTON -- America's lucrative job market of recent years is now long gone, with the unemployment rate recently rising to its highest level since October 2021. But there's still some serious ...

An aging population is drawing workers to medical and social care, creating reliable jobs and revealing weakness for the rest of the economy.

Employment in the health care sector increased by 56,700 in June, more than double the average monthly pace in this sector during the last year, according to last Friday’s jobs report. Nevertheless, ...

Health care costs continue to be a major federal policy issue with the Medicare Trust Fund expected to be exhausted in 2026 and health care expected to account for 32.9% percent of all federal ...

Among health care job sectors, nursing homes have been the most adversely affected by declines in employment growth since the pandemic—a rate more than triple that of hospitals or physician offices, ...

The health care sector is a bright spot in the economy this year, driving nearly half of the nation’s employment gains, but economists and experts say immigration crackdowns and looming Medicaid cuts ...