On Wednesday, the Labor Department is expected to report that in February the consumer price index rose 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to economists surveyed by FactSet.

Without the department, advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those ...

Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the ...

Once upon a time, the conservative position on economics was easy to describe: It was in favor of free markets.

Newly introduced U.S. House and Senate bills would create a strategic Bitcoin reserve with the aim of strengthening the ...

Senate Republicans are warning President Trump to not let his trade war drag on as his latest escalation sent Wall Street further into turmoil.  Trump on Tuesday threatened to double tariffs on ...

Former Republican Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Labor in a bipartisan ...

Persistent US dollar overvaluation fuels much of America’s global trade deficit by raising the price of our goods abroad.

The U.S. stock market fell further after President Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war, briefly pulling Wall Street 10 ...

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The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took ...

Two consecutive quarters of negative real gross domestic product (GDP), which is the total value of goods and services in the ...