AI Could Double US Labor Productivity Growth, Anthropic Study Finds

Exclusive: A first-of-its-kind Claude study gives Anthropic’s researchers a rare look at AI’s real-world efficiency gains—and ...
Marketplace

What unit labor costs can tell us about where inflation is headed

This week is a big week for inflation data: The Labor Department is putting out its latest consumer price index on Wednesday, the producer price index comes out Thursday and the import price index ...
Seeking Alpha

Labor costs rise less than expected in Q4, but so does productivity

Nonfarm productivity increased 1.2% in the last quarter of 2024 from the prior quarter, lagging the +1.8% consensus and slowing from the +2.3% rise in Q3 (revised from +2.2%), according to Bureau of ...
Fast Company

The productivity gap between states is getting wider. That’s bad for the U.S. economy

Inflation, labor shortages, and debt. Those factors, combined with others, slow down the U.S. economy to a surprising degree. In fact, successfully combating them to boost productivity in the United ...
Marketplace

Second quarter labor productivity growth may be a "statistical illusion"

The Department of Labor reported Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment bumped up slightly last week: 226,000 filed new claims, up from 219,000 the week before. And during that week before — ...
Fox Business

Worker productivity posts biggest quarterly decline since 1947 as unit labor costs soar

U.S. labor productivity plunged 7.5% during the first quarter of 2022, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure marks the largest quarterly decline ...