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U.S. longshoremen reached a contract agreement with ports and shippers, averting a potential strike that could have damaged the American economy.
Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics spoke recently about what will happen to the economy under Trump.
Thursday's report was the Commerce Department's third and final look at third-quarter GDP.
The average unemployed American last month had been out of work for 23.7 weeks, the longest such stretch in 2 1/2 years.
The jobs report also revised down gains in August and September by a combined 112,000, indicating that the labor market wasn't quite as robust then...
Blocking China's high-tech ambitions is one of the few issues that enjoys broad support in Washington from both Republicans and Democrats.
The IMF expects China's economic growth to slow from 5.2% last year to 4.8% this year and 4.5% in 2025.
Appearing before a friendly audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, the Republican presidential nominee repeatedly asserted that tariffs are...
They warn that his plans to impose huge tariffs on imported goods, deport millions of migrant workers and demand a voice in the Federal Reserve's...
In its report Friday, the Labor Department also revised up its estimate of job growth in July and August by a combined 72,000.
Biden has said, though, that he won't intervene in the strike.
The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8 million vacancies in August, up from 7.7 million in July.
“Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,’’ Trump said this month in Flint, Mich.
The job market is in an unusual place right now.
The pace of hiring has slowed, and landing a job has become harder.
The finance and information sector lost jobs as the construction sector grew.
"The labor market is now slacker and slower than before the pandemic, and the pace of hiring is the slowest it has been since 2014, outside of the...
Inflation continued to ease as consumer spending held up, bringing the Fed closer to a likely interest-rate cut in September.