Within the nation’s 50 largest cities, the top-earning households (those making more than 95 percent of all households) earned 11.6 times what households at the bottom earned (those making more than the bottom 20 percent of households), Brookings Institution researchers have found. Overall,...

More than 290,000 people work in the Texas oil and gas industry, about five times the number in Oklahoma, which has the second-highest total among the states. Still, Texas oil and gas production workers make up only 3 percent of private-sector employment in the state

Since the enactment of NAFTA, U.S.–Mexico trade and manufacturing processes have become increasingly integrated through cross-border production linkages. A new Banco de México economic model finds that U.S. imports from Mexico can be explained by taking into account the level of U.S....