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As retailers work to stay afloat during the slow economic recovery, employers are cutting costs by streamlining staff schedules — increasingly relying on part-time workers, who can cover flexible shifts on short notice. But the unpredictable hours, modest wages and lack of benefits take a toll.

Growing up, Bridgett M. Davis' mother booked and banked bets from their home in Detroit. She writes about her experience — and the role of "the numbers" in the black community — in her memoir.

Obama's economy tour, Justice Dept. on voting rights, Edward Snowden and Anthony Weiner

Local economic experts say Southwest Florida’s economy is experiencing a continued trend of positive growth. The unemployment rate state-wide decreased…

Bad weather and a strong dollar that hurt U.S. exports are thought to be contributing factors. The GDP shrank at a 0.7 percent rate.

As efforts to slow the coronavirus pandemic temporarily put millions of Americans out of work, forecasters are predicting a record slowdown in the U.S. economy.

For better or worse, the financial markets face a little less uncertainty — investors know who's going to be president for the next four years. Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, about what the outcome of the presidential election means for the economy and financial markets.

NPR's Uri Berliner joins Here & Now's to assess the impact of Iran sanctions on the U.S. economy.

As we enter the final week of 2012, uncertainty in Washington over the impending “Fiscal Cliff” is casting a cloud over the nation’s economy.Looking back…