The affordability crisis, especially in housing, health care and education, is not about Federal Reserve decisions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Capitol police officers stand on guard as a group of protesters march on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 2, 2025. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images These events all took place ...

Three days into the government shutdown, it’s increasingly unclear where the U.S. economy is headed — not because of a direct hit from the federal closures but a lack of official data. The absence of the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report, which ...

(The Hill) — Younger Americans were more likely to say the economy was the country’s most pressing concern last year, according to a new survey. In the Gallup poll, 32 percent of Americans aged 15 to 34 said that economic issues were “the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Joe Biden passed the presidential torch back to Donald Trump, the Republican had reason to celebrate the economic conditions he was inheriting. In the closing weeks of 2024, a Wall ...

President Donald Trump came into office with massive plans to overhaul the way the US government operates and consolidate power in himself. And he’s been largely successful in implementing that vision, thanks to a cowed Congress, timid institutions and a ...

The Californian economy is expected to undergo "a mild contraction," with unemployment expected to hit 6.1 percent this year according to a new report by UCLA's Anderson Forecast, which makes projections about both the state and the national economy.

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