Don Lee

WASHINGTON — U.S. job growth slowed at the start of the year, the government said Friday, as business services, manufacturing and other major industries held back on adding jobs amid increased uncertainty about the economy. The Los Angeles-area wildfires, which began Jan.

WASHINGTON —  The Federal Reserve on Wednesday made another cut in interest rates, but dialed back expectations for lowering rates in the near future. The rate reduction, the third in a row, had been widely expected, but where policymakers go from

WASHINGTON —  Miriam Mesina de Gutierrez was 19 years old when she got hired at Paulson Manufacturing in Temecula. It was the summer of 2001 and the job was only part time: on an assembly line, applying an anti-fog, anti-scratch coating

WASHINGTON —  Job growth rebounded in November from the weather-related stall in hiring the previous month, fresh evidence that the labor market remains healthy despite signs of a slowing economy overall, according to new government data released Friday. The nation’s unemployment

WASHINGTON —  Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations have raised hopes that his trade and other economic actions will not be wildly disruptive or bring back inflation. But that could turn out to be wishful thinking. Based on the record

WASHINGTON —  When President-elect Trump announced he would impose sweeping tariffs on key trading partners on his first day in office, he signaled a return to a favorite strategy: a reverse carrot-and-stick that applies the stick of dire consequences in order

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a second straight time Thursday in an effort to keep the economy sailing along by easing the high borrowing costs it engineered to fight inflation. But going forward the Fed’s rate path looks