Alicia Wallace

One of the most hotly anticipated economic reports is finally set to be released Thursday: The long-delayed jobs report for September, originally due on October 3. It marks the reopening of the floodgates for a slew of backlogged economic data that was held up due to the historic government shutdown.

The US government has reopened following its longest-ever shutdown, setting the stage for the eventual release of the gold-standard federal data that is crucial in analyzing the health and trajectory of the nation’s economy.

Pine Ridge is representative of a harsh dichotomy: It’s home to a sovereign nation, rich in resilience, history and culture, but one that’s been stifled by displacement to resource-starved regions and centuries of systemic oppression.

Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data.

History has shown that the economy typically rebounds from a shutdown within a couple of months. But each day it drags on brings a greater risk that the economy won’t just bend, it will start to break — and rupture livelihoods in the process, economists say.

Hundreds of thousands of American soybean farmers are suffering from China’s monthslong effective embargo. Among them: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The cost of living got even more expensive for Americans last month, with prices rising at the fastest pace since the start of the year.

Here’s a rundown of what got more expensive in September’s Consumer Price Index report — as well as a couple of key areas where consumers are seeing relief.

Nearly two dozen days have passed since a federal agency published any economic report. The US government’s shutdown has resulted in a blackout of critical data, further clouding an already opaque economic outlook.

There’s a chilling trend emerging in the job market: Women are dropping out of the US labor force at some of the highest levels in history.

On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report.

Private payrolls plunged in September, complicating the picture for the US economy as policymakers and investors struggle to assess the state of the labor market amid a government shutdown.

Gray’s Papaya hot dog restaurant in Manhattan has served up beef franks to the hungry and frugal masses for the past five decades.

In what could be the last piece of federal jobs data released this week if the government shuts down, a new report Tuesday showed that the number of available roles remains low for the year, a sign that opportunities continue to dwindle for Americans looking for work.

Americans ramped up their spending in August; however, their costs of living were on the rise as food and other goods became even more expensive last month and services prices remained stubbornly high.

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time this year, a move that could provide some relief for Americans from the higher cost of living. But there is a deepening inequality among households in the United States.

The cost of living continues to increase for Americans at a time when the job market appears to be on shakier footing, creating a complicated economic problem that could be tricky to solve.

US inflation cooled off at the wholesale level in August, bolstering hopes that high tariffs aren’t yet causing prices to spiral out of control, fresh data showed Wednesday.

US employment data is showing that hundreds of thousands of working women have left the labor force this year. The trend, which is occurring as the wage gap widens, is particularly salient among Black women, mothers of young children and women leaving for caregiving needs.

The American jobs market has been running in a much lower gear than previously thought, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday.