WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. retail sales dropped by the most in nearly two years in January, likely weighed down by frigid ...

U.S. retail sales surprised economists by falling 0.9% in January, much steeper than anticipated, as economists said some ...

Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says ...

Although Washington’s minimum wage went up to $16.66 an hour Jan. 1, Clark County workers earning that — and even a bit more — describe triaging bills and bunking with other families to make ends meet ...

Newsday analyzed the 2025 pay increases for all supervisors, town board members, town clerks and receivers of taxes for all ...

Nov. 26, 1896 Today is Thanksgiving. We join hands to make this country prosperous. Political promises won’t do it. Party ...

Nonfarm payrolls rose by 143K in January, less than the consensus estimate of +168K and a significant drop from the 307K ...

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are expected to introduce bipartisan legislation in the Senate on Tuesday that would cap credit card interest rates at 10%. “During the ...

My analysis of the Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey data, in collaboration with the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit immigration research group, finds that as of the ...

WASHINGTON — IRS employees involved in the 2025 tax season will not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump ...