Economy

The bill includes providing $110 billion to repair the nation’s aging highways, bridges and roads.

For months, many economists had sounded a reassuring message that a spike in consumer prices, something that had been missing in action in the U.S. for a generation, wouldn’t stay long.

Energy costs played a large role in the inflation surge, skyrocketing 4.8% from September to October, with the price of gas jumping up 6.1%.

The Labor Department said Friday that 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, or about 3% of the nation's workforce.

An aluminum shortage is hitting hospitals across the U.S. hard, limiting the number of much-needed crutches, canes, walkers and even wheelchairs that they can provide to patients.

Driving the price spikes are supply shortages resulting from consumer demand and COVID-related factory shutdowns coming out of the pandemic recession.

Jobless claims fell by 4,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in huge underground salt caverns at four sites along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and is the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil.

What's in? What's out? Here's a look at the $1.85 trillion spending bill making its way through Congress.

The October 2021 U.S. jobs report showed employers stepped up their hiring, adding a solid 531,000 jobs — the most since July.

U.S. unemployment claims fell to a fresh pandemic low last week to 269,000.

In a statement Wednesday after its latest policy meeting, the Fed said it will start reducing its $120 billion in monthly bond purchases in the coming weeks, by $15 billion a month, though it reserved the right to change that pace.

Employees would have received wages between $22.13 an hour and $33.05 an hour under the latest rejected contract, depending on their position.

The Labor Department said Friday that pay increased 1.5% in the third quarter. That’s up sharply from 0.9% in the previous quarter.

President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan.

U.S. unemployment claims dropped by 10,000 to 281,000, the lowest since mid-March 2020.

While most will likely be able to get their hands on a turkey for Thanksgiving this year, shoppers could be shelling out more cash for it as well as other holiday staples — largely due to supply chain bottlenecks.

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion in 2020.

Unemployment claims in the U.S. reached another pandemic low last week, declining to 290,000.