Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

The U.S. labor market is entering a "new normal." With it, the U.S. economy will likely wave goodbye to the days of six-figure payroll reports, 3% unemployment, and 10+ million job openings. In ...

School is back in session, but are we back to normal? It's been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, and this school year looks a lot different than it did in 2020. It's not because students are ...

The economics writer Kyla Scanlon on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the ...

A new report shows increasing higher education enrollments across nearly all sectors, levels, and types of post-secondary ...

Amid skyrocketing demand for full-time virtual schools, districts and other providers are rushing to capitalize on the rapidly evolving market of school choice in Texas. Enrollment at Texas public ...

Recently a headline in this newspaper read, "LEARNS reviews mixed as program sees 3rd year." That headline was generous, because the realities of LEARNS are a lot less than mixed. The program, which I ...

Though everything appears to be going swimmingly for the U.S. economy and stock market, looks can be deceiving.

The number of Australians who say they experience bodily pain has risen over the past two decades. Gender, age and income all ...