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While tech jobs remain a defining part of California’s economy, healthcare hiring is increasingly sustaining the state’s labor market, with much of the growth concentrated in lower-wage healthcare and social assistance roles, according to a May 11 Economic Innovation Group…

Entry-level hiring has declined as artificial intelligence reshapes many of the capabilities that once defined first professional jobs, according to a May 4 LinkedIn News post. The average seasonally adjusted hiring rate of U.S. entry-level employees declined 6% between December…

Physician productivity increased in the first quarter of 2026, but so did the cost of sustaining it. Strata’s “Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks” report, drawn from data across more than 135,000 physicians, found that overall work relative value units climbed…

Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare and Stockton University in Galloway, N.J., are establishing the Stockton-AtlantiCare College of Community Health in Atlantic City. Four things to know: 1. The alliance will expand healthcare education, workforce development and clinical training opportunities across southeastern…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic ended remote-only job listings, effective May 1. The system said the change is intended to strengthen collaboration and advance innovation, and new hybrid job postings will require employees to live within 100 miles of their assigned…

Healthcare employment rose by 37,300 in April, in line with the 12-month average of 32,000 monthly job gains, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The bureau released the jobs report May 8. Here are three more takeaways: 1.…

Two separate federal policy decisions within days of each other are simultaneously boosting the pipeline of foreign-born physicians through travel-ban policy changes while straining the pipeline of some domestic clinical workers through student loan caps.  The Department of Homeland Security…

CEOs across industries are falling into two groups over artificial intelligence use: those who plan to cut roles or those who will make the workforce do more, The Wall Street Journal reported May 5. Neither group is planning to increase…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will stop posting remote-only job listings, effective May 1, to strengthen collaboration and advance innovation. New hybrid job postings will require staff to live within 100 miles of their assigned Mayo Clinic site, a health system…

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System is advancing a precision well-being framework that shifts clinician burnout efforts upstream, focusing on operational drivers of stress and individualized interventions rather than traditional wellness programs, Ryan Breshears, MD, chief behavioral health officer and chief…