For many people, the economy is a simple equation: paychecks minus expenses. When it feels like our incomes are growing faster than prices, the economy is in good shape. When they’re not, it’s lousy.

Most Americans agree: This economy stinks. Practically every consumer sentiment survey and political poll points to that theme. People feel like their dollars aren’t stretching as far as before, and ...

A windfall for companies that build data centers and their suppliers is overshadowing weakness in other industries. By Ben Casselman and Sydney Ember In Nevada, a summer of weak international tourism ...

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...

After years of narrowing wage inequality, the workplace has become a tale of two economies again. This time, unlike in the postpandemic period, trends favor the top 25% of the U.S. workforce, whose ...

Republicans plan to use New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as a political target in upcoming elections. Business leaders in Florida report increased interest from New York executives looking ...

To understand how Americans are faring economically these days, it's helpful to consider the eleventh letter of the alphabet. Experts describe the current U.S. economy as "K-shaped," a reference to ...

New analysis from the American Farm Bureau Federation points to a simple solution for supporting the farm economy. Chad Smith has details. Smith: For more than a decade, school children have been ...

Farmers and ranchers are facing rising costs, weak prices and uneven global competition that threaten their ability to stay in business. At the same time, policy decisions in Washington can increase ...

Investors are set to miss out on the second U.S. jobs report in a row due to the government shutdown, but there’s enough scattered evidence to suggest the economy is hanging in there. With the ...

Brett Holzhauer, 31, thought he had achieved everything he had set out to accomplish: a college education, a well-paying job as a writer, a primary residence, and two investment properties. But this ...

WSJ Reporter Joseph De Avila reports on the billions of dollars in infrastructure funding and energy grants in blue states being frozen, and potentially canceled, during the government shutdown. Photo ...