The nation’s gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S., expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.8% in the April-to-June period. The new data raises confidence the economy has achieved a “soft landing” — healthy economic growth alongside cooling inflation. Consumer spending is the backbone of the U.S. economy. It

America’s so-called “left behind” counties — the once-great manufacturing centers and other distressed places that struggled mightily at the start of this century — have staged a remarkable comeback. Those counties span the nation but are largely concentrated in the Southeast and Midwest. In the last three years, they added jobs and new businesses at

Undocumented immigrants have lower felony arrest rates than legal immigrants or native-born Americans. Over decades, evidence shows a lack of evidence to support the relationship between illegal immigration and crime trends.  After illegal immigration plummeted in 2020 because of COVID, the murder rate rose. And after illegal immigration spiked in 2021 and 2022, murders fell.