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The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work....

Early evidence is promising. In 2023, the region added 30,000 foreign-born residents, amounting to a 23.2 percent increase in the...

As President Trump puts new tariffs on goods from China and threatens a trade war with allies like Mexico and...

A month ago, President Trump announced that he would impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico before reaching...

It might be a moment of hush before chaos ensues, or it may be business as usual.U.S. employers added 151,000...

Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said the central bank is focused on the “net effect” of President...

For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were...

Meltdown The markets have spoken.The S&P 500 is on track for its worst weekly loss since the collapse of the...

President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate...

When the White House finally released the text of Mr. Trump’s orders on Thursday evening, it appeared that some of...