Economy

President Trump is stumping for black votes with a promise to deliver racial equality through economic prosperity, linking an unexpectedly bright jobs report Friday to George Floyd, a black man...

Decoration of Terminal Body copy goes here The U.S. economy is unlikely to snap back quickly and may not return to normal until 2021, according to the chief of one...

As Covid-19 cases took off in New York in March, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo imposed a lockdown of nonessential businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus, calling it “the...

When Illinois shut down businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus in March and the state’s unemployment system jammed from the overload, Bridget Altenburg, chief executive of a Chicago-based...

The economy won’t suffer the worst-case scenario following the pandemic, if the most recent signs are predictive. Employers added 2.5 million jobs in May, the Labor Department reported Friday in...

President Donald Trump attempted to silence then angrily demeaned Yamiche Alcindor, a Black female reporter, on Friday when she pressed him on rising unemployment figures for Black and Asian workers....

When the May jobs report dropped Friday morning, the numbers were shocking: US unemployment actually fell, defying virtually all economists’ predictions. How did they get it so wrong? The forecast...

A number of prominent political reporters misrepresented comments President Trump made about George Floyd during his Friday press statement, falsely claiming that the president suggested Floyd would be happy with...

White House Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said Friday that the unexpectedly positive May jobs report makes approving a “phase four” coronavirus relief package unnecessary. “It takes a lot of the...

The job market halted its pandemic-induced collapse in May as employers brought back millions of workers and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined. Tens of millions remain out of work, and...