Despite GDP growth and stock market gains, the majority of Americans continue to feel the other side of the "polarized" economy.

An objective look at available data supports realistic expectations for a surging economy, if not an economic boom going forward.

Recession worries are spreading, but analysts don’t expect a dire economic slowdown in 2025 and are looking for growth to reaccelerate next year. Heightened risk factors like a rapidly cooling labor market mean the economy is more vulnerable to a ...

• The latest employment snapshot from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a bleak picture of the current state of the economy under President Donald Trump. • Labor market deterioration: Just 22,000 jobs were added in August, dramatically lower than ...

The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the third quarter, according to the Commerce Department's estimate. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday released its final reading of third quarter GDP, which showed the economy grew ...

Hello. I'm Louie. I run the USA TODAY Opinion team, and I need your help. You see, we're trying to figure out what to write about the economy. Our columnists have written a few things, and we've had some experts weigh in on the state of things. But doesn't ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports. The U.S. economy ...

We asked you, our readers, how we needed to change the way we write about the economy and what we as opinion writers – and the rest of the news media – were getting wrong. You weren't shy about telling us. At times, you said we were too focused on ...

The report included major revisions that reduced the number of jobs created last year to just 181,000, weakest since the pandemic year of 2020, and less than half the previously reported 584,000.