The U.S. imposed visa and export restrictions on Chinese state-owned companies and their executives involved in advancing Beijing’s territorial claims in the contested South China Sea
Complaints about China have piled up in Western capitals in recent years, but it took Beijing’s new curbs on Hong Kong’s autonomy to galvanize them around something approaching a common cause.
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says his universal basic income policy would prepare people for the 21st-century economy: "We need to wake America up to the fact that it is not immigrants that are causing these [job] dislocations, it's technology."
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The Labor Department released its proposal to create a new type of apprenticeship that would be run by business groups, colleges and other entities, rather than the federal government.
Germany managed to keep most of its factories open during the lockdown, while the government has moved aggressively to provide support for businesses and workers. Southern Europe, meanwhile, depends more heavily on tourism, which has dried up.
WSJ scoop: The Justice Department endorsed a bill forbidding large digital platforms such as Amazon and Google from favoring their own products and services over competitors’, the Biden administration’s first full-throated support of the antitrust bill
Joe Biden wants to raise taxes by about $4 trillion over a decade to finance his ambitious agenda. Democratic control of the Senate is the key to getting any of that done.
Where inflation is highest in the U.S.: Consumer prices were up 7.3% last month in the region that encompasses Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Mid-Atlantic states, however, saw prices rise less.
Janet Yellen’s nominee to be her No. 2 at the Treasury Department, Adewale Adeyemo, shares her view that broad-based prosperity is essential for lasting economic growth
More Americans are quitting their jobs than at any other time in at least two decades, adding to the struggle many companies face trying to keep up with the economic recovery.
The Trump administration will explore using federal programs to push local governments to soften or eliminate rules that block housing construction, an issue that has stymied officials at all levels of government for years.
Janet Yellen, Joe Biden’s Treasury secretary pick, will tell lawmakers to set aside concerns about the national debt and "act big" to avert a protracted economic downturn
“Getting infected…is not as much of an existential threat to my life as not having money for rent and food.” How the coronavirus pandemic hurts low-wage workers on multiple fronts.
“Real” wages—pay adjusted for inflation—for the lowest-earning tier of workers fell 0.5% in August from a year earlier. That contrasts with 2.1% annual growth in the two years before the pandemic.
After WTO entry, China became the world’s manufacturing floor. Research shows Chinese competition cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs between 1999 and 2011, battering factory towns.
Oil prices are down about 20% from a multiyear peak in March but the prices Americans are paying for gas still hover near record levels. Here's a look at what shapes gas prices.
A closely watched yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007. The spread between 3-month and 10-year U.S. Treasurys fell to -0.02 percentage point.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would vote on a narrow coronavirus relief bill next week that would include new funding for the Paycheck Protection Program.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned of potentially “tragic” economic consequences if Congress and the White House don’t provide more stimulus—his strongest remarks yet
Distillers concoct hand sanitizer, a car maker offers to assemble ventilators, a jeans factory switches to face masks. How consumer companies are repurposing to build weapons against the coronavirus.
China is snapping up stakes in private companies at a record rate, as the trade war, economic slowdown and credit squeeze heap pressure on entrepreneurs.
Teachers often pay higher fees on their retirement savings than workers with 401(k) plans. One reason: Unions get income from endorsing high-fee investment products.
Supply-chain delays cascade through manufacturing. For just one type of hot tub, 1,850 parts come from seven countries and 14 states and travel a cumulative 887,776 miles.
“They offer a lot of things you can’t really get in the big city.” Midsize cities, already strong before the pandemic, are attracting new workers and companies.