Overall, births are still trending downward.

We’ve now regained more jobs than we lost early in the pandemic in some sectors.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “reference week,” used to calculate employment, included Jan. 12 — when omicron was at its worst.

Higher wages and low unemployment are good news to people. Inflation isn’t.

Despite good economic data like GDP growth, many Americans are not optimistic.

GDP climbed by 5.7% last year — the highest annual growth rate in more than three decades.

The IMF’s Gita Gopinath talks about the challenges facing the global economy as the world enters its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inequalities between and within countries could widen in 2022, World Bank President David Malpass warns.

“So much is good about the recovery,” said Wendy Edelberg of the Brookings Institution. Yet “we’re still in the midst of chaos.”

States that weren’t hit as hard by the pandemic slowdown have already mostly recovered.