The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)’s 2025 annual report, released Friday (Dec. 11), was notable for its finding that 20% of student loan are delinquent. But there were other findings as well. The report offers a generally calm assessment of U.S. financial stability. It said...
Watch more: Wage to Wallet: WorkWhile’s Alan Armen The consumer still drives the U.S. economy, but a new Wage to Wallet Index™ report suggests that a growing share of that spending depends on platforms workers turn to when wages wobble. Those in the Labor Economy,...
Prediction markets, which let users bet on everything from the future price of Bitcoin to the future president of the United States, are the latest flash point between federal and state regulators. Real-money prediction markets technically like fall under the jurisdiction of the Commodities Futures...
American manufacturers are reportedly scaling back parts and raw material orders amid tariff-related uncertainty. Buying activity by manufacturers in the U.S. reached its lowest level since May last month, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Dec. 10), citing a poll of 27,000 businesses by software consulting...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will not produce an October 2025 Producer Price Index (PPI) news release, according to a revised news release dates page on its website. The agency will instead publish October data with the November 2025 PPI release, which is set...
The 60 million workers who form the human infrastructure powering the U.S. economy are increasingly scraping just to get by. Yet this cohort, which PYMNTS Intelligence defines as earning under $25 an hour, or less than $50,000 per year, drives 15% of consumer spending, per the...
Two reports released Friday (Dec. 5) showed a consumer economy that remains active and alert but increasingly pressured. Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the University of Michigan revealed that income gains are slowing, spending growth is cooling off, and sentiment is stuck...
A trio of labor reports, spanning government, private sector data and PYMNTS Intelligence findings, shows that uncertainty is rising among hourly workers even as their spending continues. Jobless claims are at a three-year low, but companies are planning more cuts, and wages for the 60...
How your job pays you as an employee is important. Half of Generation Z workers earn hourly wages, according to PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Income Instability Is Redefining the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Economy,” the November edition of the “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report.” Born after 1996 and now...