U.S. Department of Labor

The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would require covered entities, including major companies and federal agencies, to quarterly disclose AI-related job effects such as layoffs, hires, and positions left open because tasks were automated to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The H-1B visa program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

A specialty occupation for H-1B purposes is defined as one that requires the application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and the attainment of at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.

U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September 2025, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.4% in September 2025, its highest level since October 2021.

An estimated 470,000 people entered the U.S. labor force (either working or actively looking for work) in September 2025.

Labor Department revisions published in September 2025 showed the U.S. economy created 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the year ending March 2025, implying an average monthly job gain of 71,000 over that period instead of the previously reported 147,000.

The hiring rate, defined as the number of people hired in a given month as a percentage of those employed, was 3.2% in August 2025, matching the lowest figure outside the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2013.

The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.3% in August 2025.

In 2019, Accurate Energetic Systems faced several small fines from the U.S. Department of Labor for violations of policies intended to protect workers from exposure to hazardous chemicals, radiation, and other irritants.

The U.S. unemployment rate was 7.5% in March 2013 during the economy's recovery from the 2008-2009 Great Recession.

About 67% of women in the United States with children under age five are in the labor force, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Several federal buildings in Washington, D.C. serve as agency headquarters: the Frances Perkins Federal Building (U.S. Department of Labor), the James V. Forrestal Building (U.S. Department of Energy), the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building (U.S. Office of Personnel Management), the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), the Department of Agriculture South Building (U.S. Department of Agriculture), and the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).

Roughly half of U.S. states have a maximum weekly unemployment-benefit amount under $600, according to U.S. Department of Labor data.