Alyssa Fowers

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates Wednesday. Here’s what that means for your mortgages, car loans and credit cards.

Washington spent and cut taxes while the debt was rising.

Few pieces of the first-quarter GDP report remained untouched by the Trump administration’s tariff policy.

Here are the latest numbers from early voting in person and vote by mail in each state, according to the Associated Press.

Metros that had more votes for Trump in 2020 have experienced higher inflation since then. Here’s why and what that means for this election.

Technological advances, globalization and housing shortages have radically reshaped how Americans spend their money over the last 50 years.

At the Westminster Dog Show breed standards are strict, but when it comes to dog names, almost anything goes. Take our quiz to find out yours.

This is what happens when the mad scientists at the Department of Data attempt a March Madness bracket.

The Maui wildfire outbreak is one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

The 160,000 SAG-AFTRA actors on strike is the biggest single work stoppage in over 25 years.

What data on over a million crochet projects from crafting site Ravelry reveals about when people crochet and the projects they’re most likely to abandon.

As boomers age, the workforce will be older than ever. As they retire, the worker-to-retiree ratio will drop to lower than ever. Here’s what that means for you.

No country loves fried dough more than the United States. But is America split by a hidden doughnut divide? We investigate.

Presidents and members of Congress in both parties kept spending and cutting taxes, even as they knew the debt was rising

Millennials bought homes at record rates during the pandemic. But rising prices, decreasing inventory and high mortgage rates shut out younger buyers in 2022.

Gross domestic product shrank for the second quarter in a row, a common, but unofficial, definition of a recession. Here’s what broader measures of the economy indicate.

A month-by-month view of what has caused record inflation over the past year and a half.

Remembering one person for each week of the pandemic: what brought them joy and what they wanted to do next. And how that was cut short.

The Great Resignation continued into October with 4.2 million Americans quitting their jobs. Here are the industries most impacted.

Raising the state and local tax deduction cap would primarily benefit the top 10 percent of income earners.