The IMF cut its estimate for global growth this year to 3.5 percent, from the 3.7 percent it had predicted in October and down from 2018's 3.7 percent.
U.S. employers stepped up hiring modestly in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent, evidence of the economy's resilience amid the recent stock market chaos and anxieties about a possible trade war.
Some Trump voters in Iowa say they would be willing to walk away from the president if the fallout from the tariffs causes a lasting downturn in the farm economy.
Bumper crops and slightly better prices for some commodities weren’t enough to save most Minnesota farmers from a fifth year in a row of thin profits in 2017, according to a report released Tuesday.
Minot Air Force Base contributed more than half a billion dollars to the local economy last year, but the base's economic impact dropped slightly from 2016.