Jim Gibbons of Green Oak Township, Mich., hopes he has a job next month. He works for the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, which just pink-slip...

In the elusive quest for a sustainable economic recovery, some areas have fared better than others. Only 19 of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan a...

At a time when the federal government is starved for cash -- and facing layoffs and cuts in services across the board -- more and more corporations ar...

For government workers and financial sector employees, last year was a particularly bad one -- and 2012 likely won't be much better. More jobs were...

NEW YORK - The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms edged down marginally in November, though job cuts for the year have surpassed 2010's total...

Even as the nation's economy has limped along these past few years -- with millions of Americans unable to find jobs -- the federal government has kep...

When city officials need to trim personnel costs, firing people isn't the first thing they look to do: it's the third. City budgets are stretched ...

The latest complication for the unemployment crisis could come from jobs once thought to be secure in any economy. This morning USA Today has a ro...