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

The latest jobs report showed a loss of 92,000 jobs in February. After months of easing unemployment, that number crept up ...

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 ...

The two main drivers of U.S. economic growth right now — artificial intelligence and an aging population — are combining to ...

Health care, typically a sector with strong and steady net job growth, suffered a setback in February due to a major strike.The sector’s employment fell by 28,000 in February. A month-long strike by ...

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, ...

Christin Perry is a freelance writer with a passion for all topics related to health and family. She has been working as a writer for seven years now, and her work has appeared in Parents, The Bump, ...