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Americans continued to spend in April, though the pace of that growth slowed as consumers faced multiple headwinds.

Retail spending moved higher for the third consecutive month in April, but the details behind the headline point to a consumer environment that is being supported by one-time cash flow injections and ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s eight-year term spanned a global pandemic that drove unemployment higher, a surge in inflation to a 40-year high, a Justice Department investigation related to ...

Kevin Warsh, the incoming chair of the Federal Reserve, returns to the central bank with an ambitious reform agenda and a central question: How independent will he remain from President Donald Trump, ...

April’s U.S. retail and food service sales increased 0.5% from the previous month and rose 4.9% from a year earlier, as consumers continued to spend more on household necessities like gasoline, ...

The American job market pushed forward in April for a second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent jobs report. The gains followed last week’s report of ...

U.S. consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in April, the highest in nearly three years and sparked largely by soaring gasoline prices tied to the Iran war, according to the latest Labor ...

San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3% in March, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down from 4.5% in February and level with the year-ago ...

The U.S. added a better-than-expected 115,000 jobs in April, led by categories such as healthcare, transportation and warehousing, with unemployment unchanged at 4.3%. Public and private nonfarm ...

The latest jobs report for Los Angeles County from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March of 5.4%, down from 5.5% in February and 5.7% a year ago.

Economic growth bounced back in the first quarter of the year, after a record-long government shutdown in the prior quarter had weighed on overall growth.

Orange County employment weakened in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest report. Total nonfarm employment fell by 2,100 jobs in the month to 1,674,500. That marked a second ...

New York City’s labor market weakened further in March, reinforcing concerns that job losses are becoming more deeply embedded in the economy.

San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to 4.5% in February, from a revised 4.7% in January, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. February’s rate was just above ...

The February employment report was released on April 17, reporting the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Los Angeles remained unchanged at 5.5% compared to January. The number of unemployed ...

Federal Reserve policymakers held interest rates steady for their third consecutive meeting of 2026, as they prepare for a change in leadership.

The national trend of slower job growth spread to a larger swath of states in February, even as annual employment gains remained positive at 0.1%.

U.S. industrial production fell by 0.5% in March, the first contraction in the metric since November of last year, according to a recent Federal Reserve report.

The military conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has delivered a fresh inflation shock to the U.S. economy, interrupting what had been a gradual cooling in consumer prices and ...

Job growth in Orange County has slowed to a virtual standstill over the past year, with gains in education and health services offsetting widespread job losses across several major employment sectors.