Economy

Texas sees more than $40 billion in total trade with Canada every year. Canada's potential exclusion from any new U.S. trade deal could result in the nation implementing costly tariffs that would hit Texas business, a trade expert says.

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An agency official called it one of its biggest workplace raids in a decade.

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The deal is the most significant step toward a new agreement since talks with Mexico and Canada began one year ago. But negotiators remain far from finishing their work.

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Meanwhile, 15 percent of homes damaged or destroyed by the storm are still unlivable. Yet FEMA and Texas officials aren't keeping track of how many people remain displaced one year later.

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An Austin-based appeals court on Friday evening blocked the city’s controversial ordinance requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.

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President Donald Trump advanced on one of his primary campaign promises last week, imposing major tariffs on Chinese imports. The tariffs are expected to raise the price of production for agriculture while making Texan crop exports less competitive in China.

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Ask Texas voters about their families' economic situations and they'll tell you how things are going. Ask them about the state of the country or Texas and they'll reveal their partisanship.

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As young, educated professionals push away old ideas about how to move around Texas cities, transportation planners’ vision for the future is still largely influenced by the past.

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Texas loses an estimated $1.1 billion each year in uncollected sales tax from online retailers that don't have a physical presence in the state.

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Texas lawmakers signed off on building the country's first state-backed gold depository in 2015 after the project was reworked to ensure a private firm would absorb all the costs. Gov. Greg Abbott said at the time that the project would allow Texas to “repatriate” gold from New York.

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Anita and Jim McHaney just wanted to sell their pickled beets at a farmers market. It turns out that's not an easy task.

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The North Texas city said Tuesday it's "no longer moving forward" in the high-stakes, high-profile competition to host Amazon's second headquarters.

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There’s no state or federal law requiring employers to give their workers paid sick leave. But under the mandate recently passed by the Austin City Council, many private employers in the state's capital city will be required to allow their workers to accrue up to 64 hours of paid sick leave per year.

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While President Trump's order sending National Guard to address a "crisis" to the border has garnered national attention, those living in the Rio Grande Valley see a gap between perception and reality.

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A new report that looks at the growing socioeconomic gap between the rich and poor in Dallas County found that African-American and Hispanic residents continue to bear the brunt of falling incomes, and all 11 of the county's poorest census tracts are majority-minority neighborhoods.

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A brewing trade war between the United States and China is making Texas cattle ranchers nervous about potential tariffs on their beef exports.

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As the future of NAFTA remains in flux, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday asked the country's top trade representative to retain two long-standing provisions of the trade pact that have boosted the Texas economy.

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Without an infusion of new money to cover mounting liabilities, Hegar warned, credit agencies are likely to downgrade Texas’ credit rating, which would make it more expensive for the state to borrow money — and perhaps damage the state's business climate.

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In his pitch to attract Amazon's second headquarters, Austin Mayor Steve Adler has asked the tech giant to see Austin's "challenges as an opportunity." Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has emphasized that his city is already "easy."

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Despite a high demand for workers and attractive wages, few Americans sign up to do the grueling work at the JBS USA meatpacking plant in deep-red Cactus.

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