This spike was inevitable. Federal student-loan borrowers had their payments (and interest) paused for almost four years, ...

With a vacancy rate for state employees of more than 23%, the governor and legislature are looking for solutions in recruitment, retention and pay. Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget proposal released on ...

The S&P 500 Index (SPX) didn’t fight the Fed after the U.S. central bank lowered interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday. You would have thought that was baked into the market, given its rise ...

The unemployment rate ticked up in May on the back of a decline in the number of employed workers largely among the group that makes up the Gen Z generation. The number of those with jobs fell by ...

California’s official unemployment rate — the percentage of jobless workers among the state’s labor force — remained unchanged in September at 5.3%. That doesn’t sound alarming, unless one dives more ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand Americans’ views of the problems facing the country, Joe Biden’s job performance and more. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,115 adults ...

Rewind to 1989. Houston was recovering from the energy crash. Real estate prices were bouncing back. And workers' compensation insurance rates were skyrocketing. Business leaders blamed the rates, ...

The rates of students skipping school remains high following a trend that surged upwards during the COVID pandemic, according to a recent study. "Nationally, an estimated 26 percent of public school ...

Americans love fixed-rate mortgages, but their fixation on them puts the economy in a fix. That’s a problem for the central bankers who are gathered in Wyoming this week for the annual Jackson Hole ...

China's population fell for the second consecutive year as the birth rate reached a record low. The government has tried to address the issue by reversing old policies and giving incentives. But an ...