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November 10, 2025

‘No hire' job market leaves unemployed in limbo

  • Those out of work face the slowest pace of hiring in more than a decade.
    • By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
    AP Economics Writer

    WASHINGTON — When Carly Kaprive left a job in Kansas City and moved to Chicago a year ago, she figured it would take three to six months to find a new position. After all, the 32-year old project manager had never been unemployed for longer than three months.

    Instead, after 700 applications, she's still looking, wrapped up in a frustrating and extended job hunt that is much more difficult than when she last looked for work just a couple of years ago. With uncertainty over interest rates, tariffs, immigration, and artificial intelligence roiling much of the economy, some companies she's interviewed with have abruptly decided not to fill the job at all.


     
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