People feel like their dollars aren’t stretching as far as before, and the cost of living is rising beyond their means. There’s just one problem: That part is not true. Most Americans are getting ...

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For most of 2025, the job market was described by economists as "no hire, no fire" — a stretch of time when job seekers faced slim prospects, but workers could count on job security. But that fragile ...

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The US economy contracted slightly to start the year, largely reflecting a bigger tariff-related trade hit but also a larger downshift in household spending growth than first estimated. In contrast, ...

Americans have given their view on whether President Donald Trump inherited a weakened economy from his predecessor, or if the current difficulties are the result of his own policies. According to a ...

If there was one thing President Donald Trump was supposed to represent to many voters, it was the prospect of an upturn in their economic fortunes. Yet, less than three months into his second ...

Concerns about the nation’s economy have grown in the first months of President Donald Trump’s return to office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as few Americans see his policies as ...

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...

This week was, as President Donald Trump himself put it, bad for Republicans. We faced down election losses in Virginia, where voters embraced someone who drooled over the idea of murdering his ...

That's how Harvard scholar Keyu Jin describes the problems afflicting the world's second-largest economy. "China's economic woes," she writes in Nikkei Asia, "are less a sign of stagnation and more ...