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US Labor Market Shows Mixed Signals, as Manufacturing Loses Nearly 100K Jobs Despite Low Jobless Claims
In this Talent Talk article which first appeared on Plastics Today on December 8, 2025, our CEO Paul Sturgeon analyzes the conflicting statistics on the labor market. Layoffs in 2025 were up sharply, but new jobless claims remained low. Paul tries to make sense of the apparent contradictions, especially as it relates to the manufacturing sector. Click the link to read the entire article.