These health problems are alarming on their own. They also have a devastating impact on our economy. A one-year increase in life expectancy could boost economic output by 4%. On the other hand, as ...

Americans never really agree on the state of the economy. People tend to be biased toward their own situation. If you have a ...

As the largest component of the economy, it is one of the main determinants of the country’s economic health. In the first quarter of 2025, real personal consumption expenditure increased by 1.8 ...

What’s the single best way to measure the health of a country’s economy? For most experts, there is little debate that gross domestic product, a quarterly tally of all the goods and services a ...

The US economy is expected to slow the rest of the year as tariffs take a bigger toll on consumers and businesses, ...

The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the third quarter as businesses built more warehouses and accumulated machinery equipment, but momentum appears to have since waned as higher ...

Why U.S. Economic Health Depends on Wealthy Consumers. Affluent Americans are driving retail spending, which could sustain healthy growth for the next year.

The US job market continues to chug along despite heightened uncertainty about the economy and how President Donald Trump’s tariffs could shake out.

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 ...

Is U.S. Economy Really Bad? The health of an economy can be evaluated by several measures, but the most commonly used metric is gross domestic product (GDP).

Though he wasn’t even president for the entire quarter, the first official report on the health of the U.S. economy in 2025 bears the unmistakable imprint of Donald Trump. An estimated 0.3% ...

U.S. employers added a robust 272,000 jobs in May, a sign of sustained economic health Letter carrier Gabriel Peña delivers mail in Los Angeles on March 22. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) ...