Yeldell is among the millions of fast food workers across the U.S. scraping to get by. About two-thirds of them are women, ...

Only about 2 in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” confident that Trump will be able to make progress on lowering the cost of groceries, housing, or health care this year, according to a survey ...

That trend, documented by Federal Reserve research, represents something of a shift from the pre-pandemic period. And it suggests that consumer spending, the primary driver of the U.S. economy, could ...