When the nation’s labor secretary flubs arithmetic while struggling to defend poor employment data, there’s a problem.

I was young and had never tuned to CNBC, which seemed an order of magnitude less interesting than anything else on television. But in the fall of 2008, the economy was imploding. So I clicked over to ...

Class identity—whether a person identifies as upper, middle, or lower class—shapes how we behave, who we interact with, and many other fundamental life choices. But despite its ubiquity, the formation ...

California's sales pace over the past three years is down 31% compared to the previous 18 years, while the nationwide drop ...

Over 400,000 households in New York had their gas or electric shut off last year because of non-payment, surpassing recession-era totals.

U.S. miners have experienced the equivalent of a second Great Recession this year, thanks to the precipitous drop in oil prices. Jobs numbers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday show ...

Homebuying was 24% slower the past three years than during housing’s nightmare period. Nationally? 13% higher.

President Donald Trump asserted that he had "defeated" inflation and that the US economy was returning to normalcy in a bullish statement earlier this year. However, despite Trump's claims, that ...

In Detroit, the median price of a home is now estimated at $7500, less than the lowest priced new car on the market. In Lehigh Acres, once a middle-class suburb of Miami, one out of every four people ...

New York (CNN) — Credit scores are falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession as Americans struggle to keep up with the high cost of living and the return of student debt payments. The ...

The COVID-19 outbreak and the economic downturn it engendered swelled the ranks of unemployed Americans by more than 14 million, from 6.2 million in February to 20.5 million in May 2020. As a result, ...