Clara Mattei, president of the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, discusses austerity measures, exploitation, and more.

“The economy broadly is still going OK, but we are struggling with the cost of goods,” said Rob Lehmann of Fair Wind Fasteners.

“It's not the change of tariffs,” said KPMG U.S. CEO Tim Walsh, “but the fact that tariffs are changing, and then sometimes changing again.”

Steve Schneider, a recently-retired school counselor of almost three decades, tells us about the job landscape amid advances in AI tech in the workplace.

Cross-border tourism from Canada has dipped amid recent tariffs and border tensions.

What can we learn about the wider U.S. economy by looking at business conditions and job markets on a region-by-region basis?

Both the company and the union say it’s the other side holding up negotiations at the bargaining table.

Recent spending cuts to rural safety net programs have some bracing for financial hardship, in light of what they went through during the Great Recession.

It’s not just tariff uncertainty making things more complicated for builders. Higher interest and mortgage rates are also in the mix.

“Employers are not going to necessarily be prioritizing what’s best for kids; they’re going to always have their bottom line as their top priority,” explains Vox’s Rachel Cohen.