Bureau of Labor Statistics

Unemployment Rises 15.8% Despite Substantial Loss of People Available to Be Unemployed

Reeves accuses the Sheep State of manipulating figures; labor bureau says missing residents have already improved them.

By Margaret Huang · Nov 10, 2026

A copy of the March 3, 2020 edition of The New Newmanton News sits beside Tuesday's edition on a desk at the TNNN offices. The headlines are not identical.

Is AI Finally Coming for Your Job? An Update on Our Prior Coverage of Whether AI Is Finally Coming for Your Job

This is the 1,827th consecutive day The New Newmanton News has run a version of this article. Analysts say the answer may be different this time.

By Margaret Huang · May 23, 2026

A family with a shared annual income of $235k in Gnu's Merchants Heights district observes Sunday dinner protocol as the father prepares to carve, having exhausted the poultry portion of their weekly protein allocation.

Local

Middle-Class Households Now Source Protein From Cockroaches, Less Capable Rats, and Each Other, Bureau Finds

Commonwealth Bureau of Household Nutrition calls results 'a balanced plate'; Rat Coalition stresses that none of the consumed rats were members

By Claire Beaulieu · Oct 24, 2026

The cover of Brent Fallows's new book features a single ladder rising into an empty blue sky. The bottom rungs are not shown.

Reviews

Book Review: 'Who Moved My Career, Labor Rights, Honest Wage, and Delusions of Upward Social Mobility?'

A management consultant argues that the collapse of the American worker's prospects is, at its root, a mindset problem

By Constance Bellweather · Mar 4, 2026

A printout of the leaked Democratic Party strategy document, partially redacted with a highlighter, rests on a table at Plimpton's Pub & Provisions on Thursday evening.

News

Leaked Democratic Memo Proposes Tax Break on Severance Packages, Annual Union Photo as Cornerstones of 2028 Labor Platform

Internal document also includes list of marginalized groups party is prepared to 'sell down the river'; phrase described as 'an unfortunate choice of words' by the staffer who chose it

By Margaret Huang · Mar 9, 2026

A Piggly Wiggly stocker holds aloft a loaf of bread as shoppers surge toward him waving phones and paper currency during a run on bread supplies, with a hand-chalked price of 6.8M visible on a shelf board behind him.

Local

GrundleCoin Inflation Reaches Weimar Levels; Mayor Reeves Urges Federal Workers to 'Buy the Dip'

Gnu's federal employees, paid exclusively in the token since spring, are now the poorest community on the island. Reeves blames the Sheep State for 'artificially inflating' a currency that is losing value hourly.

By Margaret Huang · Nov 7, 2026

A Harvester press event featuring the consumption of a participant in the program.

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