"If lawmakers want to help make Illinois economically competitive, investing in higher ed should be a real state priority," the head of the Center on Tax and Budget Accountability writes.

Opportunity stalls in Illinois as the state lags other Midwestern states on four key indicators of social mobility. The state ...

Illinois’ job market struggles continued with almost 50,000 more unemployed workers than there were job openings in January – ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for schools and food banks. Pritzker addressed concerns Wednesday about how Illinois will ...

Illinois Agriculture Day honors farmers, producers and other related businesses for their role in feeding the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it.

“Despite elevated levels of uncertainty, the US economy continues to be in a good place,” Powell said at an event hosted by the University of Chicago. “Sentiment readings have not been a ...

No, argued Simon Kuznets, the Nobel economics laureate who helped create the measure now known as GDP. When the US Department of Commerce started publishing estimates of national output in the ...

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd ...

Investing.com -- It’s set to be another hectic week in markets with the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting front and center. The U.S. is to release its latest employment report on Friday ...

Update: President Trump announced Thursday afternoon he would also put a one-month pause on tariffs from Canada that fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The tariffs are scheduled ...