A strong labor market isn’t enough to win elections. That reality could shape how the government responds to the next ...

Janet L. Yellen, the outgoing Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to raise the debt limit and protect the full faith and ...

As the Federal Reserve’s premeeting blackout period begins, it is a good moment for a look at how Fedspeak and economic data ...

Inflation is still there, according to the December Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, with the annual rate marginally ...

Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear ...

On a high note, the U.S. job market ended 2024, adding 256,000 jobs in December and pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.1 ...

The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the ...

Retail sales in the United States edged higher in December, signaling that consumers remain willing and able to spend despite ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady on Jan. 29 and resume cutting in March, according to a slim majority ...

The central bank’s recent infusion of financial-market brawn includes Beth Hammack, who worked for three decades at Goldman ...

Some federal employees are quietly changing the language of job descriptions and performance reviews in an effort to protect ...

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday reintroduced his measure requiring federal workers to return to the office, ending ...