Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

1 month ago | usnews.com | Tim Smart |Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

Key Takeaways: Prices paid by businesses at the wholesale level held steady in February. Egg prices rose 53.6% while gasoline fell 4.7% in the month. Wholesale inflation was unchanged in February, the second reading in a row showing that prices cooled somewhat in the month. While the overall producer price index came in flat, prices for goods increased by 0.3% in February, while services costs declined by 0.2%. On an annual basis, the PPI increased by 3.2%, down from 3.7% a month earlier.

1 month ago | usnews.com | Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky |Laura Mannweiler

Over the course of his long and at times testy address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump uttered his predecessor’s name more than a dozen times. Forms of “border” and “tariff” – two words closely associated with the president’s most closely held priorities – appeared close to 20 times apiece. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” Trump said of the latter. A U.S. News word frequency analysis reveals the themes, people and places that cropped up the most in Tuesday’s speech.

1 month ago | money.usnews.com | Tim Smart |Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

President Donald Trump promised to lower inflation starting on Day One in the White House. The latest data suggests that price hikes may be cooling off, but it’s unclear whether that trend will persist in the face of tariffs and other economic policy changes. Americans, meanwhile, are feeling the pinch. In February, the first full month of Trump’s second term, inflation as measured by the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.8%, coming in below forecasts.

Jan 23, 2025 | usnews.com | Aneeta Mathur-Ashton |Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

Students and workers identifying as sexual and gender minorities have lost access to government webpages addressing harassment and discrimination. The Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are among the latest federal agencies to have parts of their websites mysteriously go dark during President Donald Trump’s first week in office, a review by U.S. News has found.

Jan 16, 2025 | usnews.com | Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

1/13 CreditGetty Images|View as articleStates of SuccessThe best-performing cities in America are all over the map – literally. They range from Anchorage, Alaska, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and everywhere in between. That’s according to an analysis by the nonprofit Milken Institute that ranks metropolitan areas across the nation based on the vitality of their economies, taking into account each city’s job market, high-tech industries and access to economic opportunity.