U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in December while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% as the labor market ended the year on a solid footing, reinforcing views that the Federal Reserve would ...

Those figures are higher than the drop in white unemployment, which declined by just 0.4 percentage points, as seen in the following chart: Even so, unemployment rates are still elevated for Black ...

Unemployment fell to record lows, but growth never hit the promised levels and the trade deficit worsened. The charts below show how key indicators evolved during former President Obama’s second ...