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Axios Media Trends

Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees

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Axios Macro

Concern about finding a job is spiking

Line chart. U.S. adults’ concern that people wanting work can’t find it. Share saying they are very concerned; Latest survey of 5,062 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 28–Oct. 4, 2026; Irregular surveys, July 2022 to October 2026. 11 records. Survey date: 2022-07-04, Very concerned (%): 27; Survey date: 2022-10-16, Very concerned (%): 29; Survey date: 2023-01-24, Very concerned (%): 30; Survey date: 2023-04-02, Very concerned (%): 27; Survey date: 2024-01-21, Very concerned (%): 31; Survey date: 2024-09-02, Very concerned (%): 40; Survey date: 2025-04-13, Very concerned (%): 41; Survey date: 2025-09-28, Very concerned (%): 42; Survey date: 2026-01-26, Very concerned (%): 45; Survey date: 2026-07-12, Very concerned (%): 44; Survey date: 2026-10-04, Very concerned (%): 48

Share of U.S. adults who say they are very concerned that people wanting work can't find it

Markets

Axios Markets

The rising risk of the AI-versus-everything-else economy

Growth in U.S. construction spending&nbsp;&nbsp;

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, FactSet; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips; Note: Data center construction includes construction costs, such as labor, materials, profits of contractors, architectural and engineering work and miscellaneous overhead, interest and taxes. Does not include servers, racks, chips or memory.

Immigration split screen: Microsoft gets a crackdown and a medal

Labor Department marks low layoffs milestone

A line chart that tracks the four-week average of U.S. jobless claims weekly from Jan. 6, 2024, to Oct. 3, 2026. Claims rose from 205,500 to a peak of 242,250 in June 2025, then eased to 198,000 by October 2026, the series low.

Four-week average of U.S. jobless claims

Data: U.S. Department of Labor; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios

Women don't like AI. They have reasons

Trump's dilemma: Good data, bad story

How Utah can build its healthcare workforce

Why the jobs data is more upbeat than it suggests

A column chart that shows month-to-month payroll employment changes from October 2025 to September 2026. Job gains range from a low of minus 156,000 in February 2026 to a high of 214,000 in March 2026. Employment swings between losses and gains, then posts smaller gains through late summer.

Month-on-month change in payroll employment

Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios

Communicators

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The comms hiring slowdown

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