Productivity Growth Kept the Economy Humming This Year. Expect More Gains in 2025. - MSN

Productivity gains not only spurred economic growth this year, but helped to alleviate inflationary pressures. The trend is expected to extend into 2025, giving the U.S. a continued advantage over ... Read More

The US economy closed out 2024 with another solid month of job gains - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

(CNN) — The US economy added 256,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% from 4.2%, wrapping up a year that marked a return to pre-pandemic norms, according to Bureau of ... Read More

Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy. Making big cuts to such government spending unwise - Phys.org

Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation—and the vital productivity gains it supports. The Trump administration has already canceled at least US ... Read More

Fed's Kugler Says Immigration, Productivity Gains Have Strengthened Economy - Morningstar

Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler said Tuesday that a tide of new immigrant workers and a rise in labor productivity have strengthened the U.S. economy, and noted that she and her Fed colleagues ... Read More

Americans sour on US economy and anxiety over tariffs remains the chief culprit

Americans’ view of the economy worsened in June, wiping out much of the previous month’s gain which followed a string of declines that had dragged consumer confidence to its lowest level since the ... Read More

U.S. economy's secret weapon, productivity, rises sharply again

Third-quarter productivity increases at 2.2% pace One of the biggest drivers of a strong U.S. economy, worker productivity, showed another healthy gain in the summer and early fall, in a good omen ... Read More

Is the US economy set for success? - MoneyWeek

American equities rose 24.4% in 2024 to trade on a prospective multiple of 20.7 times 2025 operating earnings, compared with a return of 5% for the rest of the world in US dollars. Read More

Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process

Workers still know things that algorithms don’t. They’re essential to designing AI systems to enhance, not replace, jobs. Read More

Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making big cuts to such government spending unwise

For instance, the productivity gains from nondefense R&D are at least 10 times higher than those from government investments in highways, bridges and other kinds of physical infrastructure. Read More