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When President Biden left office in mid‑January 2025 the big‑picture readings looked solid: Q4 2024 GDP growth was reported at about 2.4% and the unemployment rate was near 4.1% in December 2024 (Axio...
The United States does not currently have a "failed" economy: macro indicators and professional forecasts point to continued growth and resilience rather than collapse, but the expansion is uneven and...
DEI policies have moved from visible, metric-driven programs toward retrenchment, rebranding or tighter legal framing since executive orders; many companies have scaled back public goals, removed DEI ...
Congress and VA appropriations in 2024–2025 raised mandatory funding for disability compensation (Compensation and Pensions account) to roughly $192–$227 billion depending on the measure, and Congress...
Insurers’ filed rates and expert analyses show pre-subsidy premiums for ACA marketplace plans are set to rise sharply in 2026 — analyses report median proposed increases of about 18% and headline proj...
after : remain silent to avoid political blowback or speak out and risk retaliation — and many are choosing caution; surveys and reporting show a sizable minority of executives explicitly view such ev...
A shift from a slowdown to would be signaled not by any single data point but by a confluence of deteriorating leading indicators (especially ), a clear and sustained weakening of the labor market, co...
Independent forecasters broadly agree that U.S. growth will be modest but positive over the next two years, with near‑term GDP projections clustering roughly between about 1.8% and 2.5% for 2026 and s...
The question essentially asks which cultural, economic, health and consumer currents are dominant in the United States right now; the short answer: slow demographic growth and aging, cautious consumer...
Federal reporting and policy analysis do not converge on a single “official” dollar figure for the most recent year because authors use different years, definitions, and scopes; however, the most wide...
Independent forecasters expect inflation to trend down toward the Fed’s 2 percent goal by 2026–27 while unemployment drifts modestly higher through 2026, but the magnitude of both moves differs across...
Most professional forecasters see modest growth for the U.S. economy in 2025—commonly in the 1.8–2.5% range—with many agencies flagging slower job creation, elevated uncertainty from tariffs and immig...
The American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) enhanced premium tax credits sharply reduced net premiums and boosted Marketplace enrollment in the short run—about 21 million people enrolled with roughly 93% receivi...
If enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire after 2025, the largest immediate financial hits fall on middle‑income households (especially those just above 400% of the federal poverty level), older enro...
Continuing the enhanced ACA premium tax credits would stabilize coverage and reduce premiums for millions but raise federal costs substantially — CBO-based estimates put a permanent extension at rough...
Since the American Rescue Plan (ARP) in 2021 and its extension in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), federal ACA premium tax credits became substantially more generous and the government’s net cost fo...
The 2018–2019 shutdown, at and an estimated hit to U.S. output, stands as the benchmark for long, costly shutdowns; comparisons of the 2024 shutdown hinge almost entirely on how many weeks it lasts, w...