The US economy shrank slightly less in the beginning of the year than previously reported, new data shows, but it was still the first quarterly decline since 2022, in a sign of how President ...

In the last six months of 2024, however, the economy was humming along -- with average growth of around 4.4 percent. Official estimates now forecast GDP growth at around 2 percent in 2025.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell in a news conference said that uncertainty is pervasive, from where policy is headed to how the economy will evolve in the face of Trump’s ongoing trade spat with the ...

Recent data shows the economy has cooled off and might have trouble getting back to a strong point. The job market is tough, real GDP dropped more than initially thought, and consumer spending ...

The economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% from 4.2%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist for New Century Advisors, what the latest job figures tell us about the state of the economy.

But those are all parts of the real economy, and they show up in the lives of real people. The way we count should reflect that. Month after month, the story doesn’t change.

The GOP's advantage on the economy is no surprise to conservatives. Donald Trump's focus on the economy is why Americans elected him president.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' push to get businesses open again quickly during the pandemic in 2020 resulted in the Florida's economy bouncing back faster than most other states and the country as a whole ...