Justin Lahart

Justin Lahart A key survey of American consumers is scraping bottom, showing they've never felt this lousy about the economy, even at the height of recessions or when the Covid pandemic raged.

Justin Lahart The advent of artificial intelligence has led to worries that the U.S. faces a future where there will be too few jobs for workers to fill.

Working-class Americans have experienced a paycheck bump in recent months after tax breaks and some signs of faster earnings growth, certain data

The U.S. economy keeps putting more eggs in the artificial-intelligence basket.

This past week's anemic employment report rekindled a burning question for the U.S. economy: How many new jobs does it actually need?

Persistent cost-of-living worries are eroding a crucial GOP asset, giving Democrats an edge ahead of the midterms.

Mitchell Brown, a Republican pollster, has noticed something new in the focus groups he runs with voters in battleground states: “They know exactly, to the dollar, the amount of their power bill,” he said.

The revised numbers show a slightly weaker labor picture than previously reported for the year that ended in March.

The pace of job growth was probably slightly weaker than reported from early 2025 through early this year, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.

The U.S. likely added this many fewer jobs than previously reported over the 12 months that ended in March , according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Friday’s preliminary revision was far smaller than the pr