The jobs report on Tuesday "paints a sobering picture of a job market that may officially be turning frigid after a prolonged cooling period," Laura Ullrich, director of economic research in North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab, told ABC News in a statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday, where he sought to convince Americans that his handling of the economy is sound ahead of a midterm election that could spell trouble for him and his ruling Republicans.

The November jobs report is landing at an odd time – on a Tuesday in mid-December, instead of (what’s usually) the first Friday of the month – due to the lingering impact of the historically long government shutdown.

If the American economy is a three-legged stool, one of those legs is broken, the other is wobbly and the final one is holding it all up (for now). That’s how Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics described the results of his analysis of ...

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Rethinking Economic Growth,” by Dan Varroney. The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But it could be so much better. I am reminded of Winston ...

American consumers concerned about affordability are currently benefiting from gas prices at lows not seen in years.

A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.

The data flashed some warning signs, showing the unemployment rate had ticked up to its highest level in four years and retail sales had stalled at the outset of the holiday season, some analysts told ABC News.