The US government has tried trillions of dollars of fiscal and monetary stimulus, and yet our economy remains stuck in low gear. The officially measured unemployment rate hovers around or above 9 percent, but millions more are so discouraged by the poor job market that they have stopped looking for...

Since the earliest days of the American republic, entrepreneurs have been essential to the economic growth and social dynamism of the United States.

From Nathan Appleton, textile merchant and entrepreneur in the late 1700s, to the founding of Apple by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the 1970s, entrepreneurs...

Nearly every day there's some statistic or factor that's bandied about to demonstrate why our economy continues to struggle. But in all the debates among economists and policymakers over the past few months, one group of people has been stunningly underrepresented -- and it's a group that may actually hold...