One big reason the U.S. housing market is broken: Owners don’t want to give up their cushy old loans.

A lapse in funding would delay data on unemployment and inflation as policymakers try to avoid a recession.

The August increase was the smallest since early last year, a welcome sign for Federal Reserve policymakers.

Revised figures for the year ended in March show 300,000 fewer jobs at the close of the period than previously reported.

Pay and benefits increased 1 percent, down from 1.2 percent in the first three months of the year. The cooling will be welcomed by policymakers...

The reading on gross domestic product was bolstered by consumer spending, showing that recession forecasts early in the year were premature, at least.

The furious pace of job-switching in recent years has led to big gains for low-wage workers. But the pendulum could be swinging back toward employers.

The slowdown is good news for policymakers worried about inflation, but a sign that the engine of the economy could be losing steam.

Government data showed that G.D.P. rose at a 2 percent rate in the first quarter, better than initially reported.

An educator who served in the Obama administration, he championed workers, especially Black workers, and challenged his profession’s racial assumptions.