Everyday Economics: Labor market found a floor. Productivity has to do the rest

Last week made the economy look a little less fragile. It did not necessarily make it stronger.Employers added 162,000 jobs ...

Cost of living drives battleground Senate race in Ohio

As inflation concerns dominate the midterm landscape, the candidates in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race are offering competing ...

Voters rate Trump's economy below his overall approval: Poll

With consumer prices still higher than a year ago, voters disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the economy more ...

Louisiana opioid deaths fall 59% as misuse ranks last

Louisiana opioid-related deaths have fallen 59% since 2022, even as federal survey data rank the state last among the 50 ...

25 years after 9/11: Commission reforms face a new test

In 1993, Islamic terrorists detonated a truck filled with explosives at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Five years later, a related group, al Qaeda, bombed ...