Economy And Jobs Blog Posts

President Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the 2024 campaign trail. Which have been kept, and which are unfulfilled?

War in Iran has roiled oil markets and sent fuel prices to near-record highs. But for years before that, electricity and other energy costs had been rising steadily in the US, with no signs of slowing...

On April 2, 2025, Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Where does the economy stand after one year?

A review of expectations and results after a year of Trump 2.0.

This article is a winning submission of the 2025 AllSides Student Journalism Contest by Samara Castro, Grade 12, California, Lean Left Bias.

Donald Trump may be running out of aircraft carriers.

Read arguments for and against the Trump administration's latest moves to scale back the federal government.

I offer the following topics as those that we should all be watching most closely in 2026.

Democrats won campaigns in November by focusing on the economy and cost of living. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania to sell his administration’s actions on affordability.

In April of 2025, AllSides conducted a large-scale analysis of topics that appear in news media outlets across the political spectrum. This analysis examined which issues are most frequently reported,...