USDA managed to find another 1.3 million acres of corn in this month’s WASDE report, bringing planted area to 98.7 million acres. As a result, the harvested area was pegged at the highest estimated ...

Policymakers, investors, businesses and government officials are eager for the latest look into the slowing U.S. job market. But they won’t be getting it until well after the federal government ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Friday it would next week publish August's construction spending, ...

As the summary notes, this decline was due in large part to a fall in government-sector jobs, which fell by 22,000 jobs in ...

The shutdown of the federal government — now the longest-running in US history — has delayed two consecutive job reports.

For economists who follow the job market, the first Friday of the month is like Christmas morning. That's when the Labor Department usually delivers its report on jobs and unemployment. But all ...