Study after study shows women seen as overweight or obese often earn less at the workplace, an unfair bias that's been hard to reverse. However, men don't seem to face that penalty.
The Federal Reserve says its own light-touch approach to bank regulation is partly to blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month, and it promised more vigorous oversight in the future.
The Federal Reserve and the FDIC reported on lessons learned from March's bank failures, including lapses in government oversight and ideas on how to prevent similar meltdowns going forward.
House Republicans narrowly passed a bill linking a debt ceiling raise to spending cuts, which Biden says he would veto. A political historian explains why he may have to make some concessions.
NPR's Michel Martin talks to former Federal Reserve governor Claudia Sahm about who's feeling the biggest pinch of high inflation and rising interest rates, and what the Fed might do next.
The Fed chairperson was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine's president, during which the discussion focused on the impact of interest rate hikes.
Economic growth slowed in the first three months of 2023. The Commerce Department said that gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.1% in the first quarter — down from 2.6% in late 2022.
The Federal Reserve and the FDIC are set to report Friday on their oversight of two failed banks. The banks' collapse six weeks ago rocked credit markets and raised the risk of recession.