Credit card debt surged in the United States from April through June as Americans borrowed billions of dollars to continue spending in the face of growing inflation, according to a Tuesday report from Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Government workers—teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers, bus drivers, city government employees—who make up more than 15% of the U.S. workforce, have seen their wages lag significantly behind those employed by private industry over the past year.
The system for getting donated kidneys, livers and hearts to desperately ill patients relies on out-of-date technology, according to a confidential government review obtained by The Washington Post.
The breakthrough spending deal reached by Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer would commit a historic $370 billion to combat climate change, but it comes at a cost that some green activists are finding impossible to accept.
The deal aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change and reduce the federal deficit, marking a massive potential breakthrough for President Joe Biden’s long-stalled economic agenda.
Facebook executives warned that marketers are pulling back spending in part because of an uncertain economic environment, which has some experts warning a recession could be on the horizon.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a notice to the legal team for Caitlin Bernard on Tuesday advising it that the doctor is under investigation for how she had reported the procedure to state officials.
Hobie Billingsley built the Indiana University diving team into a powerhouse, molded a legion of Olympic divers and trained a generation of instructors. Sports Illustrated once declared Billingsley “far and away the best collegiate coach in the country.”
Advisers and allies say they think former Vice President Mike Pence is likely to run for president, and insist he will not base his decision on whether Trump chooses to run again.
Facebook announced Thursday that it’s overhauling the design of its flagship social network by elevating content from creators over posts from friends and family in an effort to fend off intensifying competition for users’ attention.
President Joe Biden, 79, has begun taking Pfizer’s Paxlovid treatment for the disease, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, and will isolate at the White House while continuing his duties.
Toys R Us and its mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe are trying to make another brick-and-mortar comeback ahead of the holiday season, after the brand filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its 800 U.S. stores four years ago.
Back in 2015, when FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler affirmed the current broadband standard, some internet access advocates already thought those speeds felt out of date. Those concerns are even more palpable in 2022, now that the glut of content to stream has grown even bigger
Sunday’s violent episode at Greenwood Park Mall did not end like the majority of mass shootings in this country, with the assailant’s arrest, suicide or death at the hands of police officers.
While people taking on multiple jobs is typically a sign of a healthy job market where workers have more job opportunities available, it is also a sign of increasing financial strain on Americans’ pocketbooks.
The last day of the workweek, once synonymous with long lunches and early departures, has become the most common day to skip the office altogether.
The latest inflation reading was supposed to offer hope that the U.S. economy had weathered the worst of the storm. But there was nothing reassuring in Wednesday’s report.
Strong demand for travel is giving U.S. airlines a financial boost as the industry battles through reduced flight schedules, higher fuel and labor costs, and concerns about the effects inflation could have on consumer spending, airlines officials said this week.
For several years, Celsius was a crypto golden child under co-founder Alex Mashinsky, offering more than 20 percent yields under what he and other executives said was a disruptive plan that avoided the fees and greed of traditional banks.
While many countries define an economic downturn as two consecutive quarters of negative growth for gross domestic product, the U.S. defers this assessment to elite academics at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
