Consumer sentiment soured in October as a government shutdown threatens to weaken a wobbly economy beset by an uptick in inflation and a sharp slowdown of hiring, fresh data on Friday showed. The ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will bring some furloughed employees back to work so it can publish the September consumer-price index, a key inflation report, an administration official said.

Consumer sentiment changed little in October as Americans grapple with a softer labor market and high prices, although their ...

More recently, spending has been skewed by changes to the tax code that favor the well-to-do and the surge in returns on ...

In other words, Social Security payments keep rolling, regardless of whether the government is open or not. However, the ...

Democrats have shut down the federal government because they think the federal debt isn’t spiraling out of control fast ...

Broward government spending has outpaced both inflation and population growth to the tune of about $190 million, Florida ...

MPs returned to the House of Commons earlier this month to confront an old problem — inflation — which is now being driven by ...