Since President Trump returned to office, more than 300,000 Black women have lost their jobs, while unemployment for them has shot up from 5.4% to 6.7%. “This structural inequality among Black women will eventually create a huge deterioration in the entire economy as they don't consume as much … [and] this contagion, I believe, will spill out throughout the entire economy,” says Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. New School Economics Professor Darrick Hamilton warns: “The adage ‘Black people are the first fired, last hired’ is indicative of what might come for the rest of us.”

Employment gains were so weak in the July jobs report that President Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau charged with collecting the data, baselessly claiming it was rigged.

Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill will serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said...

President Trump’s pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, E.J. Antoni, has been backed by Trump adviser Stephen Moore and Stephen K. Bannon.

Economists are watching for more signs the trade war is raising prices for consumers.

Vice President JD Vance will speak at a steel-fabricating facility about the law's benefits for manufacturing, part of a broader Republican blitz during the August congressional recess.