by Lillian Syme | May 12, 2026 | Employment
The labor market showed surprising signs of resilience in April, revealing an economy that is trudging along in the face of growing uncertainty. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that on Friday employers added 115,000 new jobs in April, around double what...
by chrissywang70 | Mar 9, 2026 | Employment, Retail
As retail sales slipped and the job market weakened, Americans are draining their savings to cover what their paychecks no longer can. Retail sales fell 0.2% in January from the month before, the Census Bureau reported Friday, according to the retail sales data...
by Max Rivera | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Inflation
As polls show an uptick in support for the presumed Republican nominee, experts say the support for Trump is tied to inflation and a history of incumbents being held responsible for the nation’s economic woes, something that disproportionately affects Black voters....
by Laura Turbay | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Housing, Inflation
Imagine a frog in a pot of water. Someone raises the temperature and the frog acclimates to it. But the heat only keeps rising. That’s what inflation feels like to Kody Kohnen, a 22-year old senior at Texas A&M studying agricultural leadership, who explained...
by Anastasia Tomkin | May 24, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Retail
It is no secret that Black Americans are underrepresented as business owners. They make up about 12.4% of the US population, but Black business owners are only 2.4% of all employer-owned firms. And while Census data shows that the number of Black-owned businesses in...
by Elisa Muyl | May 6, 2024 | Employment, Featured
The US economy added fewer jobs than expected in April, signaling that months of surprising growth may finally be slowing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 175,000 new jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations of around 240,000...
