It’s a lot of lost money for the economy,” said Marcela Díaz, executive director of the immigrant workers’ rights organization Somos Un Pueblo Unido.

President-elect Donald Trump made a visit to the nation’s capital Wednesday to meet with congressional Republicans. As he did, a group of economic leaders meeting nearby had a simple message for him and his incoming administration: You can’t have robust economic growth without robust immigration.

An undocumented immigrant told CNN in a segment on Thursday that he supported Donald Trump for the economy, but didn't agree with mass deportations.

Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a longtime foreign correspondent. His latest book is Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. X: @hofrench

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

Tariffs were a significant measure during the first Trump administration. Trump imposed more than $300 billion in duties on Chinese goods. President Joe Biden largely re-upped Trump's policy in May — and added new tariffs on certain sectors on top.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday the U.S. central bank has time before it needs to adapt its policymaking thinking due to the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House.

The Republican sweep of the 2024 election sets the economy on course for potentially faster economic growth, higher inflation, and higher interest rates in the years to come, according to several economic forecasts.

The economy is in “reasonably good shape,” said Gustavo Ventura, an economics professor at ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business and the luncheon's keynote speaker. Inflation remains a problem, but less so than a year ago, he added. Dennis Hoffman ...

U.S. voters’ decisive swing toward President-elect Donald Trump reflects dissatisfaction with recent inflation, as well as deeper fears about slipping financial security.

Roughly two-thirds of voters rated the economy as “not so good” or “poor,” compared to just one-third who rated it as “excellent” or “good,” exit polls found.

On Tuesday, a poll released from AP VoteCast found voter's views on a number of different topics ahead of the presidential election.