Ms. Edelberg is a former chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office. The latest jobs report, delayed for almost seven weeks by the government shutdown, finally came out on Thursday and we ...

Something in the US economy isn’t adding up, and it’s rattling the people charged with wrangling inflation and keeping the labor market intact. US companies have sharply slowed their hiring this year, ...

Talk of the K-shaped economy is brewing once again. The moniker first gained traction in 2020 to describe the divergence between how rich and poor Americans were experiencing the pandemic recovery.