WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record. The economists said ...

Although the U.S. as a whole isn’t officially in a recession, 22 states are currently in a recession — or are dangerously close. “State-level data makes it clear why the U.S. economy is on the edge of ...

The terms stoke outsized panic in some cases and insufficient caution in others. Lately, the stock market has taken a thrashing. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have each fallen for seven consecutive weeks.

Nonprofit groups must avoid adopting a hunker-down mentality in the face of the current recession, urges Roger Craver, a veteran fund-raising consultant. Writing to members of The Chronicle‘s new ...

Nearly half of the country is now flashing recessionary warning lights, with twenty-three states already meeting a common rule-of-thumb definition of contraction and several others hovering just above ...

After the U.S. and China agreed to roll back tariffs in May, markets are no longer seeing a high risk of a recession happening in the next 12 months. "The size of the tariff tax hike has been scaled ...

The headline numbers say the United States is still growing, yet daily life feels like a grind of higher prices, fragile jobs, and constant anxiety. That disconnect is not a mirage. It reflects an ...