Emma Nelson

Economist Christopher Phelan has also worked as a consultant to the Minneapolis Fed.

The state’s labor market showed some signs of recovery in March, but unemployment is still higher than the U.S. as a whole.

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran risks driving up inflation, the Minneapolis Fed president said.

The Minneapolis Fed president made news in April for opposing the central bank’s bias toward rate cuts, a move he said he’d been mulling since the war began.

Workers are making more, but businesses are cutting back, research shows.

Employers added 15,900 jobs, but unemployment is elevated and the labor force is shrinking.

Birthrates are declining, yet many families who want children can’t afford fertility care. Many states require insurance to cover it, but a bipartisan push at the State Capitol to bring that requirement to Minnesota failed again.

Labor force participation has been falling for months, even as the state recovers from Operation Metro Surge.

The Minneapolis Fed president was one of three regional bank leaders to oppose leaving rates unchanged this month.

The U.S. economy is good on paper, but middle-income Americans have never felt so pessimistic about it.