Economy

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More Americans are falling behind on credit card bills

Credit card delinquencies rose in the first three months of the year. That's a sign of the growing financial stress some families are feeling in an era of rising prices and high interest rates.
- Scott Horsley
Off the Charts: Boeing was top U.S. manufacturer of missiles and munitions delivered to Israel from 2021-2023

As Seattle students protest Boeing’s ties to Israel, demanding that their schools sever ties with the company, we wondered, what is the extent of Boeing’s connection to Israel? Significant, it turns out.
- Teo Popescu
With 'bleisure' and fewer workers, the American hotel is in recovery

A new type of traveler is part of the post-pandemic reset at U.S. hotels, along with fewer daily cleanings and pancake-slinging machines.
- Alina Selyukh
Biden will keep Trump's China tariffs, and add new ones on electric vehicles

The Biden administration is finally wrapping up its review of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. It will keep those tariffs, and add more on things like electric vehicles.
- Asma Khalid
Washington state farmworkers sue U.S. Department of Labor over depressed wages

A group of Washington state farmworkers is suing the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the agency allows employers to exclude them from work by hiring cheaper, foreign labor.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Tax revenue jumps 22% in April, but U.S. deficit still looms large

The U.S. Treasury ran a surplus last month, thanks in part to the April 15th tax deadline. But the federal government is still expected to end the year more than $1.5 trillion in the red.
- Scott Horsley
A snowball that became an avalanche. Lessons from the financial struggles of the Bellevue Arts Museum

What started as an art fair made it big in 2001, when the Bellevue Arts Museum opened its brand-new building on the corner of 6th Street and Bellevue Way. But in the decades since opening its doors, BAM has struggled financially, and in recent reporting, the Seattle Times’ Margo Vansynghel found that a recent fundraiser was just one symptom of larger financial struggles.
- Libby Denkmann
Congress has less than a decade to fix Social Security before it runs short of cash

Social Security benefits are facing an automatic cut in less than 10 years unless changes are adopted. The report from Social Security trustees predicts the fund will be exhausted in November of 2033.
- Scott Horsley
The clock is ticking to fix Social Security as retirees face automatic cut in 9 years

Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But the popular retirement program still faces big challenges including the threat of automatic benefit cuts in less than a decade.
- Scott Horsley
People say they worry about inflation. Their restaurant spending might show otherwise

Restaurant earnings and pricing tell us the economy is still troubled by inflation but not badly enough for consumers to give up eating out.
- Scott Horsley

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