Since Mr Trump’s election, that figure has surged by 1.7 percentage points—the joint-largest three-month rise since 1979, ...

Since World War II, only one president significantly shrunk the federal workforce during stable times. He sounded a little like Trump—but he was a Democrat.

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz flagged major concerns for the economy under President Trump, claiming ...

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Wendy Edelberg is the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and was chief economist of the ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios As the nation marks a turbulent Black History Month, the economic state of Black America has much improved over the last few decades but is still nowhere near parity. Why it ...

President Trump plans to impose fresh tariffs on all aluminum and steel imports, seeking to curb China’s growing dominance in ...

Americans are facing higher costs. Trump was elected on promises to lower prices for inflation-weary consumers and high ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it ...

The consumer price index rose 3% on the year in January 2025. Economists worry that broad disinflation is over, even as tariffs loom.