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The U.S. economy created 236,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell back to 3.5%. As RSM chief economist Joe Brusuelas said in an email on Friday, the labor market remains "stout."
The US economy is on the verge of an extremely rare achievement. Economic growth in the first half of the year was solid, with the economy expanding a robust 2.8% annualized rate in the second ...
This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
The United States Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey published weekly statistics of the effects of the pandemic on Americans' lives. For week 12 (July 16–21), 51.1% of respondents reported a loss of employment income since March 13, 2020, 12.1% reported food scarcity, 40.1% delayed getting medical care in the past four weeks, and 26.5% ...
The US added a hotter-than-expected 254,000 in the month, sending the unemployment rate down to 4.1%. Meanwhile, job gains for the months of July and August were also revised upward.
A weekly update on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, and on major individual economies such as the US, China, Japan, other Asian economies, Europe, Australia and New Zealand has been produced by Saul Eslake, one of Australia's best-known economists, since late April 2020. [258]
The world’s most famous market indicator just suffered its longest losing streak since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday ...
The United States has been the world's largest national economy in terms of GDP since around 1890. [98] For many years following the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the danger of recession appeared most serious, the government strengthened the economy by spending heavily itself or cutting taxes so that consumers would spend more and by ...