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The Labor Department will offer an update Friday morning on the U.S. jobs market. After lackluster hiring in June, forecasters expect the report to show a modest pickup in July.
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The city of Greensboro has delayed the South Elm Street Pedestrian Plaza project. Residents, business owners and others are invited to share feedback at a public meeting on Monday, August 10, at 4:30 p.m.
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Dallas' financial industry is growing amid a larger Texas business boom. But can it really steal New York's crown?
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During President Trump’s first term at the White House, he negotiated the USMCA to replace the decades-old NAFTA. Now he favors terminating it as he seeks to impose a more protectionist trade policy.
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Rates were falling for the past year until the war with Iran drove them back up. Now worries about inflation — and what the Federal Reserve might do with rates — are driving them higher.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute about President Trump's latest round of tariffs and the legal challenges they may face.
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A water outage this week forced many Winston-Salem businesses to close or limit their service.
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Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.
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Many countries talk about wanting to boost manufacturing. Decades ago, Brazil did it. They lured international businesses to build a whole bunch of factories in the middle of the Amazon. So, with hindsight, was the plan a success? Planet Money goes to the Amazon to find out.
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The U.S. economy continues to grow, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year. GDP grew at an annual pace of 1.5% during April, May and June.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi about the ways in which Americans are experiencing the high cost of living.