Mortgages

The economy continued to rebound this year despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, payroll giant ADP reported Wednesday.

Small businesses are recording a significant jump in job growth this month, while weekly and hourly earnings grew as well, according to payroll giant Paychex.

As communities begin to build back their finances after the pandemic, this company wants to close the gap in equitable lending.

The data show a jobs recession that was hardest on women without college degrees and Black and Hispanic women, and was pretty tough on men without college degrees and Hispanic men too.

Economists now expect hiring to recover along with increased immunizations.

In the coming months, as more Americans get inoculated and virus cases fall, economic activity is poised to resume and job cuts may decline further.

Less jobs were lost to the pandemic than expected, but unemployment levels still haven't recovered.

Experts see powerful employment gains over the next three years that evade the curse of past recessions. If they’re right, millions of Americans will leap back into the workforce as soon as vaccines against the coronavirus roll out.

Prolonged unemployment harms physical and mental well-being, traps workers in poverty and increases family stress, according to studies.

In the first episode of the five-part documentary series, we look at how disparities in net worth and mortgage discrimination impact Black home ownership — and why it's impossible to close the gaps without attacking systemic racism.

This five-part series is a comprehensive effort to explain the racial discrimination Black Americans face in our financial system.

Persistently high jobless claims, along with this week’s announcements of tens of thousands of layoffs, indicate widespread economic pain.

Among the quarter of American employees still working at home because of the pandemic, a majority were in jobs such as computer science, legal and finance.

“This isn't just an issue for women. It's an issue for families, and it's an issue for the government and economies because it drives GDP,” says Jennifer Reynolds, a former investment banker and CEO of Toronto Finance International.

Chances of further employment and economic gains are diminishing without the widespread stimulus payments and small-business aid that have sustained incomes and spending.

Pinterest canceled a large office lease at a building to be constructed near its San Francisco headquarters, marking one of the most significant moves yet by a big tech company to scale back real estate plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sales and customer-support roles are among those being eliminated, and affects some workers who sell the company’s software aimed at financial-services firms, health and life-science companies and other cloud sales teams.

The coronavirus pandemic, and the accompanying mass shift to doing white-collar work from home, has led to reports of real estate frenzies in scenic places.

Some Silicon Valley startups, hungry for young talent, have presented an alternative to school: a remote internship, aimed specifically at young people looking for alternatives to a dismal school year.

Initial jobless claims in regular state programs fell by 249,000 to 1.19 million in the week ended Aug. 1, Labor Department data showed Thursday.