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August unemployment report shows little change for Black workers

ACTING SECRETARY OF LABOR, JULIE SU by Karen Juanita Carrillo and Chris Lee, NY Amsterdam News An August jobs report showed the U.S. adding 142,000 jobs last month,...

Rising interest rates and prices keep homeownership as a distant goal, especially for African Americans

In the wake of escalating mortgage rates and soaring housing prices, the dream of homeownership in the United States is slipping further from the...

Economic lookahead: As we ring in 2024, can the US economy continue to avoid a recession?

by D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University With economic forecasters rewriting their 2024 outlooks following recent moves from the...

Why SVB and Signature Bank failed so fast – and the US banking crisis isn’t over yet

by Vidhura S. Tennekoon, Indiana University Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases...

Silicon Valley Bank biggest US lender to fail since 2008 financial crisis – a finance expert explains the impact

by William Chittenden, Texas State University Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the...

Why inflation will likely stay sky-high regardless of which party wins the midterms

The U.S. government can’t do much about rising food prices, which are primarily caused by supply chain problems. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh by William Chittenden, Texas...

5 things to know about the Fed’s interest rate increase and how it will affect you

Would the person responsible for the fate of the U.S. economy please raise his hand? AP Photo/Patrick Semansky by D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University The Federal...

US economy may be slowing, but it’s coming off the hottest year since 1984

Tracking changes in net wealth is one of the best ways to see who benefited from economic growth. Chris Rogers/Photodisc via Getty Images – here’s...

Soaring energy costs fuel fastest inflation in 40 years: 3 essential reads

by Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Matt Williams, The Conversation Inflation continues to surge at the fastest pace since the early 1980s, placing more pressure...

America’s cost of ‘defending freedom’ in Ukraine

A woman in Ukraine appears to pray as she waits for a train out of Kyiv. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Higher food and gas prices and...

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