WASHINGTON — Federal agencies on Friday rushed to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curtailing diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The executive orders ...

Since 1996, Statistics Canada has used the population group question in the census to measure the racialized populations through the visible minority concept in accordance with the Employment Equity ...

Photo: U.S. consumers cut back sharply on spending last month, the most since February 2021, even as inflation declined, ...

Stripping out the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index gained 0.3% last month after an unrevised 0.2% ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled as expected in January; however, the good news came with a red flag for the US economic engine: Consumers pulled back their spending by the most ...

showed production increased 0.5% in January month-to-month, exceeding market expectations of a 0.3% rise polled by major news outlets. Production increase 1.0% in December. In the Store: MDM’s 2024 ...

Global warming and loss of vegetation are part of the story, but scientists aren’t sure what else could have caused the January record.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump marked Black History Month at the White House on Thursday, preserving a tradition by ...

We’ve had some colder weather this winter than we’ve seen in the past several years here in western Massachusetts.

For example, the December month’s data has recently been released. So now the data is available for July-December 2024, which is necessary for calculations of DA revision for January 2025.