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Fed expected to hold rates steady days ahead of US midtermsThe US Federal Reserve appears set to hold interest rates steady at its meeting next week, analysts say, despite stubbornly high inflation ...
Why is unemployment down for foreign-born workers in the US?The Trump administration's immigration policies aimed to create more jobs for native-born Americans. However, data shows native-born unempl...
Trump's immigration crackdown threatens America's job market and ability to recruit foreign talentImmigrant workers, vital to the U.S. economy, face job losses and deportation under new policies. This crackdown impacts low-wage laborers ...
U.S. national debt soars past $37 trillion, now larger than the entire economy as Trump’s record tariffs face historic deficit testU.S. debt hits $37 trillion as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs pump billions into federal coffers, yet the nation’s deficit keeps...
How immigration could muddy the job numbers in USThe Federal Reserve faces a complex challenge as it considers interest rate cuts amid a potentially weakening labor market. Trump's immigra...
US may see net loss in immigration for the first time in 50 yearsEconomists predict the US could see more people leaving than entering for the first time in over 50 years, potentially in 2025. This shift,...
Frustrated Americans await the economic changes they voted for with Donald TrumpDespite a strong economy, Americans frustrated with high prices elected Donald Trump, hoping he'd replicate his pre-pandemic economic succe...
Trump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts sayDonald Trump claims inflation will disappear if he is re-elected, but economists disagree. They say his policies, like high tariffs and mas...
US Presidential Election: Donald Trump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts sayDonald Trump's proposed economic policies, including massive tariffs, mass deportations, and interference in Federal Reserve's decisions, a...
'Can't be a CEO in America if you aren't an Indian,' quips US Ambassador GarcettiUS Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, highlighted that over 10% of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies are Indian immigrants who studied in the ...
A healthy US economy's secret ingredient: Immigrant workers, eager to fill jobsHow has the economy managed to prosper, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month, at a time when the Federal Reserve has agg...
Why Americans feel gloomy about the economy despite falling inflation and low unemploymentCensus Bureau surveys that Murphy and his colleague Aparna Jayashankar have studied show that nearly half of Americans say they're "very st...
Fitch cuts US credit rating to AA+; Treasury calls it 'arbitrary'With the downgrade, it becomes the second major rating agency after Standard & Poor's to strip the United States of its triple-A rating. Th...
In the Market: Amid the calm, the Fed brews the next stormThe Federal Reserve's hawkish outlook on interest rates may increase the likelihood of a "crash landing" in the economy rather than a "soft...
US hiring likely slowed for a fourth month as coronavirus resurgesEconomists have forecast that employers added 580,000 jobs last month, down from 661,000 in September and 1.5 million in August. If that es...
The economic challenge awaiting the winner of 2020 presidential race: Millions of struggling AmericansWhether it's President Donald Trump or Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden, the reality is grim: about half of the 22...