One reason is that big corporations have not faced the economic pain that small businesses have Why are stock market valuations soaring when the real economy remains so fragile? One factor has become clear:...
2020: Year in Business
2020 has been a tale of two economies. On Dec. 4, the stock markets hit all-time highs even as the government reported stagnant job growth and an unemployment rate of 6.7%. Investors continued to see stellar returns while millions lost their jobs and thousands of small businesses closed permanently. The pandemic moved most of America to a work-from-home schedule and hastened the migration to online shopping. The question now: Can President-elect Joe Biden keep the recovery going?
The U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 6.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. It's the seventh …
Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race will provide a boost to a U.S. economy battered by the COVID-19 pandemic as his bold spending plans and stauncher support for trade and immigration...
The United States faces a wave of small-business failures this fall if the federal government does not provide a new round of financial assistance — a prospect that economists warn would prolong the recession,...
The Federal Reserve has bailed out the stock and bond markets and stabilized the economy with its rock-bottom rates — but at the expense of Social …
Like many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, employer-based...
In a New Jersey suburb seven miles west of Midtown Manhattan, the American Dream is on shaky ground. The Dream in question isn’t the mythological notion that upward social mobility is within reach for...
In late October, Courtney Allen got the call she had been waiting for: A school district asked if she could come back as a substitute teacher. Allen desperately needed the money as she was getting only...
Trish Pugh started an Ohio trucking company with her husband in 2015. Even for a small business, it's small — they had two drivers, counting her husband, until they let one go because of the coronavirus...
As the pandemic leads more companies to embrace remote workers, new jobs data explores how a farther-flung workforce expands opportunity. The pandemic …