The Bureau of Labor Statistics released annual 2025 state estimates and revised monthly data, offering a more detailed view of where employers were hiring and workers were leaving jobs.
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11 stories in this desk.Full-time wage and salary workers earned a median $1,251 per week, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier compared with a 3.9 percent increase in consumer prices.
Three proclamations target certain Canadian autos, alcoholic beverages and dairy products beginning August 19.
AAA’s daily national average reached $4.003 on July 20, extending a rapid rise tied to renewed instability around the Strait of Hormuz.
The University of Michigan's preliminary July index rose to a five-month high of 54.4, though most responses preceded renewed fighting with Iran and the latest rise in gasoline prices.
A final federal rule reduces the minimum soluble-solids level and allows a limited share of mandarin or tangerine juice in products sold as pasteurized orange juice.
June data show a third monthly decline in single-family starts and weaker permits, even as a surge in apartment projects lifted total housing starts.
Federal data show a fifth monthly gain in retail spending, although the increase was smaller than May's and the figures are not adjusted for inflation.
Eleven of twelve Federal Reserve districts reported slight-to-moderate growth, while higher fuel and input costs continued to pressure households and businesses.
The producer-price index declined 0.3 percent from May as energy costs dropped, while prices remained 5.5 percent higher than a year earlier.
The PROMISE Act would create a structured process for Congress to consider a long-term solvency plan, but it does not itself choose benefit or tax changes.
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