Economic Indicators

If you're out and about and noticing "Now hiring!" signs at every turn, there's a reason: Small businesses are having issues staffing up in the COVID-19 pandemic era.A combination of extended unemployment benefits, fears about contracting the coronavirus in the workplace and a lack of stability in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold as vaccinations...

U.S. inflation has generally been below the Fed’s 2% target since 2012. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discusses reasons inflation could move somewhat higher over the next year or so.

Detroit's unemployment rate won't get back to pre-pandemic levels again until 2025. That's the latest finding from the City of Detroit-University Economic Analysis Partnership that produces job and wage data with support from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State…

This unique animated visualization uses health and wealth measurements to chart the evolution of countries over time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bouncing back from months of retrenchment, America's consumers stepped up their spending by a solid 2.4% in January, the sharpest increase in seven months and a sign that the...

Previous food price spikes contributed to the 2011 Arab Spring protests, and more could be on the way.

The stats body said it had considered adding face masks and face covering but decided not to because 'usage could decrease rapidly once the population have been vaccinated.'

Black and Hispanic women and those without bachelor’s degrees are at risk of being left further behind as the economy slowly begins to recover.

Recent studies find that women dropped out of the labour market to school their children

The administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus package may be too much for safety, an economist says.

Powell said he expects some inflationary pressures in the time ahead but they likely won't be enough to spur the central bank to hike interest rates.

Many economists agree that runaway inflation isn’t a major concern, at least in the short term

There are signs that the food inflation that's gripped the world over the past year is about to get worse

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the labor market continued to tread water, but a drop in new COVID-19 cases has raised cautious optimism that momentum could pick up by the spring.

U.S. consumer prices rose moderately in January and underlying inflation remained benign as the pandemic continues to be a drag on the economy.

Another 275,000 women left the labor force in January.

Thirty-year bond yield rises to 2% on expectations that government support will fuel price rises

Many economists would agree that the official U.S. unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of actual labor market conditions. Although this is one of the most cited pieces of data on the economy as a whole, not many people understand how this indicator is calculated and who is and – more importantly – who isn’t included in it. The latest data, which found that joblessness fell from 6.7% in December to 6.3% in January, shows why.

The struggles that afflicted the job market since the viral pandemic tore through the economy nearly a year ago are keeping a tight lid on hiring

The Commerce Department says the U.S. economy grew just 1% in the last three months of the year, as a rise in coronavirus infections weighed on in-person businesses like restaurants.

The U.S. labor market lost jobs in December for the first time in eight months, while women and workers of color continue to bear the brunt of job losses as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the U.S.Unemployment for women and Hispanic workers rose in December for the first time in eight months,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will experience a subdued recovery this year from the devastating pandemic, the World Bank predicted Tuesday, but it warned that the near-term outlook is...

The unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story. We talked to a panel of economists to find out what other measures can shed light on whether we're in a short-term crisis — or the start of a long recession.