Economy

Brutal winter weather snarled traffic, canceled flights and cut power to homes and factories in February. Yet it didn't faze U.S. employers, who added...

The U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter on the strength of the strongest consumer spending in three...

    The U.S. economy is showing more strength than at any time since the Great Recession began six years ago. Employers are hiring. Home prices, sales...

The weakest month of hiring in three years ended 2013 on a sluggish note and raised questions about whether the U.S. job market can...

Wow! The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot perkier in the third quarter, according to revised data released by the government on Friday. Gross domestic...

Photo: nul.org Since the government was forced to shut down on October 1st, one of the most common refrains...

Fifty years ago today, when more than 200,000 protesters took to Washington to demand racial equality, they came with specific policy ideas too, many of...

WASHINGTON — Seeking to focus public attention on the problem he was sent to the White House to solve, President Barack Obama is...

President Obama's high-road quest to move Washington past 'phony debates' and refocus on the economy may sound good. But fiscal fights this fall will...

100 By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told supporters on Monday that he plans to focus his agenda clearly on the economic challenges of the middle class, a theme he will lay out in a speech on Wednesday and follow up with detailed proposals in the coming months. ...