Economic and Business News

More than four-in-ten U.S. businesses with paid employees are in industries likely to be financially affected more deeply by the outbreak.

About six-in-ten U.S. adults say there’s too much economic inequality in the country these days, and among that group, most say addressing it requires significant changes to the country’s economic system, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

The most export-dependent places in America often are far from big cities and are more likely to be in the South or Midwest than the coasts.

There were more than 14,000 certified organic farms in the United States in 2016, a 56% increase from 2011.

As the congressional debate over Trump's tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher-income households should be raised rather than lowered.

Although the unemployment rate gets most of the attention, the government's monthly jobs report contains lots of other data that, properly interpreted, can provide a fuller picture of the U.S. economy.

American voters express relatively little confidence in either major party presidential candidate when it comes to their ability to help American workers prepare to compete in today’s economy.

Most of the biggest inflation-adjusted wage gains have occurred in metro areas that have directly benefited from the boom in U.S. oil and gas production

We interviewed Arun Sundararajan, a professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University, and a leading expert on the sharing economy. Sundararajan is the author of the recently released book “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.”

Americans are now more positive about the job opportunities available to them than they have been since the economic meltdown, when views of the job market took a nosedive.