If we don’t know what the quality of the data will be. Well, that’s uncertainty. That’s risky,” says Columbia finance ...

Federal workers are getting laid off by the thousands. Local businesses, whether they’re in Washington, DC, proper or outside ...

As the shutdown stretches past its second week, thousands of federal workers—many of them Black—are losing jobs, paychecks, ...

Federal government shuts down after budget impasse• Consumer advocates warn of sweeping risks to housing, food, finance, and data privacy• Essent ...

That means the government shutdown is unlikely to have any impact on the 2026 COLA, even if the release of the information is ...

The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for tens of millions of beneficiaries. Originally scheduled ...

Oct. 15 — when active-duty military members could miss a paycheck — is seen by some lawmakers as the next real deadline for action in the federal government shutdown fight as Democratic and Republican ...

Every year, older Americans wait for October to find out how much their monthly Social Security checks will increase next year. This year, they may have to wait longer. Without September's inflation ...

A U.S. government shutdown could renew interest in crypto as investors question Washington’s stability, analysts said.

Much of the coverage about the concerns that beset states and localities tends to focus on specific areas like budgetary shortfalls, the need for better technology and a shortage of people to fill ...