As Congress has spent the last few weeks debating aid to state and local governments, a number of states have announced surprising news: Their finances no longer look quite as […]
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Back to news homeFed Closes Out Wild Year as All Eyes Focus on Bond-Buying Program
The Fed is also low on new tricks, but not entirely out of them. Officials could, as early as this week’s meeting, change the way they are buying bonds in […]
Experts Debate How to Revive the Economy After the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a brutal toll on the U.S. economy. Job losses resulting from the health crisis wiped out years’ worth of gains, hitting women, people of color […]
States Try to Rescue Small Businesses as U.S. Aid Is Snarled
Kirk Meurer was on track to have one of his best years ever in his business installing office furniture in the Cleveland area. But when companies began sending their workers […]
How Bad Was Virus Aid Fraud? One Banker Was ‘Frustrated With Humanity’
Some of the fraud won’t come to light until the middle or end of next year, when most borrowers will reach their deadline to seek forgiveness or start repaying the […]
A $900 Billion Plan Would Help the Economy, but Not Fix It
The economic recovery, slowing for months, is in danger of going into reverse. That’s why a growing list of economists, business lobbyists and other advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to […]
Further Slowdown in Job Creation Sets Off Economic Alarms
The American job engine has slowed significantly, stranding millions who have yet to find work after being idled by the pandemic, and offering fresh evidence that the recovery is faltering.The […]
1 Percent of P.P.P. Borrowers Got Over One-Quarter of the Loan Money
The largest loan in the building went to Atane Engineers, a contractor that changed its name in 2018 after a corruption scandal that culminated when two former top executives pleaded […]
U.S. Economy Stumbles as the Coronavirus Spreads Widely
Layoffs are rising again and Americans’ incomes are falling, the latest signs that the one-two punch of a resurgent pandemic and waning government aid are undermining the U.S. economic recovery.Applications […]
Janet Yellen Set to Lead Treasury Department Under Biden
WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen became an economist at a time when few women entered the profession and fewer still rose in a male-dominated environment. She is now poised to […]