A key driver of the US economy remains solid. Spending at US retailers rose 0.1% in August from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. That’s a much slower pace than July’s ...

For much of the past year, Las Vegas, the anchor of Nevada’s economy, has watched in delight as visitors have flocked to town for conventions, football games and summer pool parties, further ...

If our politicians tried to do to us what China’s politicians just did to their own citizens, I’ll bet Americans would take to the streets. The Chinese government, in one fell swoop ...

Americans are feeling a greater sense of optimism about the US economy this month, thanks to slower inflation. Voters also see a greater likelihood that Vice President Kamala Harris will defeat ...

Amid a tight race for the presidency, Americans' views on the economy could spell trouble for Vice President Kamala Harris, experts told Newsweek. Between April and June, the U.S. economy expanded ...

The US economy added 818,000 fewer jobs to the economy than initially reported from April 2023 through March 2024. That's according to a data revision from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

According to the Kamala Harris - Tim Walz campaign website, Harris' Opportunity Economy framework has several key items: affordable childcare and housing; decreasing healthcare costs; lowering ...

GENEVA -- The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” the United Nations reported Thursday, with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering ...

The Palestinian economy is currently in "free fall" and will need billions of dollars to repair, the United Nations said this week. On Thursday, Pedro Manuel Moreno, the deputy secretary-general ...

The gig economy might seem relatively new, but it is actually centuries old. And in many parts of the world it is grueling. An “informal” worker in Mumbai, for example, might get up before 5:00 a.m.

Government statistics have tended to paint a more upbeat picture of the economy than how real Americans on Main Street believe that things are going. For example, more than half of Americans say ...

VP Kamala Harris’s leading tagline at the Democratic National Convention centered on hope and progression as she touted the importance of creating an opportunity economy for the country.