An indelible image from the Great Depression features a well-dressed family seated with their dog in a comfy car, smiling down from an oversize billboard...
“It’s easier to get a job than a raise in this economy,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton.
Across the country, workers say they cannot find jobs that provide a middle-class income and do not come with an expiration date.
Businesses and households seem to occupy opposite ends of a teeter-totter, with consumers continuing to spend while business owners and managers are chastened by doubt...
Restaurants, farms and other businesses say they need more foreign workers. And economic growth may depend on it, given lower birthrates.
The labor shortage has helped workers who were hit hardest during the recession: Minimum-wage earners, African-Americans, Latinos and Americans with a high school diploma or...
The ranks of state and local employees have languished even as the populations they serve have grown. And the 19.5 million workers who remain in...
Private contractors in new program cost far more than they recovered, and ignored protections for poor and disabled taxpayers, an agency watchdog reports.
While processing tens of millions of tax returns for 2017 under the current rules, the IRS also has to interpret and explain a new system...