Keyword topic
5 articles from 5 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention labor shortage, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned labor shortage, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
Fox Business mentioned it first (Oct 1, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 4 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source that mentioned labor shortage, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention labor shortage, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The New York Times | 0.1% | 1 | 1197 |
| CNBC | 0.1% | 1 | 956 |
| CBS News | 0.1% | 1 | 1538 |
| Fox Business | 0.4% | 1 | 234 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 0.8% | 1 | 132 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention labor shortage, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +3.1: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention labor shortage. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as labor shortage, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
No keyword appears in more than one of its articles.
Example articles
The article that features labor shortage most, per source.
- The New York TimesThey Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire.
- CNBCThey survived World War II and lost decades, but not 2026. Japan's century-old businesses are disappearing at a record pace
- CBS NewsCould Lady Gaga be "The Cure" for a Japanese convenience store's labor shortage?
- Fox BusinessMike Rowe warns US workforce facing ‘problem of the decade’
- The Wall Street JournalThe Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build Houses
All articles
Every article that mentions labor shortage, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wall Street Journal | The Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build HousesThe Wall Street Journal | 0.60 | |
| The New York Times | They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire.The New York Times | 0.50 | |
| CNBC | They survived World War II and lost decades, but not 2026. Japan's century-old businesses are disappearing at a record paceCNBC | 0.40 | |
| CBS News | Could Lady Gaga be "The Cure" for a Japanese convenience store's labor shortage?CBS News | 0.70● | |
| Fox Business | Mike Rowe warns US workforce facing ‘problem of the decade’Fox Business | 0.70 |