The town council in Yuma, Colo., recently passed a unanimous resolution asking Congress and the president to resolve the immigration system. Businesses in Yuma are worried they could lose their wor...
With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there's an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for pe...
The former Fed chairman says he didn't create the housing bubble and couldn't have prevented the economic calamity that followed the bubble's collapse.
Detroit is expected to shut the doors of 44 of its 172 public schools as the district struggles with declining enrollment and a budget deficit of $219 million. Host Michel Martin speaks with Robert...
The private Conference Board says its leading economic index rose 0.1 percent in February. Ataman Ozyildirim, a Conference Board economist, said "the leading economic index points to moderately imp...
A rise in food prices last month was offset by a drop in gasoline and other energy costs. The Labor Department's report indicates there is little sign of inflation, which enables the Federal Reserv...
The Labor Department says the number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 457,000. That nearly matched analysts' estimates of 455,000.
In a notable turnaround, the International Monetary Fund recently acknowledged that some developing countries might benefit from controls on capital inflows. IMF research found that countries with ...
A new study finds that the number of people in multigenerational households grew by 2.6 million between 2007 and 2008. The trend is fueled by young adults, but older adults are also slightly more l...
A Harvard economist estimates how much revenue each state would raise by legalizing and taxing illicit drugs.