Job Recovery

Controlling Their Futures: Employees Turned Entrepreneurs

AP | JOYCE M. ROSENBERG | Posted 12.13.2011

NEW YORK — The recovery in the job market just hasn't happened. So, many people who lost their jobs well after the recession ended in June 2009 ...

Alex Wagner

Will The Auto Industry Lead the Recovery?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 10.02.2011

As the country continues to face high unemployment and slow economic growth, a new report suggests that America's best hope for job creation may lie w...

Retail Sales High In March

AP | By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 06.07.2011

NEW YORK -- Shoppers shrugged off higher gas prices and cool temperatures to give retailers a surprisingly strong March. The retail revenue figures r...

Michigan: Is Job Recovery Headed for a Turn?

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Wendy N. Powell

Michiganders are giving up the fight to stay in their home state. How long can we wait when the economy is not even at a point of stability?

Putting Americans Back to Work: Congress Should Extend Emergency Jobs Fund

David Cicilline | Posted 05.25.2011

David Cicilline

There is a human face to this lingering recession. If TANF/ECF funding is not extended, more than a quarter of a million families across the U.S. are at risk of falling into unemployment again.

The Reason Why Jobs Are AWOL

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Pento

Our government is not currently headed down the correct path to a sustainable recovery. They are trying to re-inflate another bubble instead of allowing the free market to create jobs that can help reconcile our trade imbalance.

'Mano a Mano': Obama's Job Recovery Beats Reagan's...By 1 Year!

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Abrams

The rightwing in today's economic story is like the child who killed both his parents and then pleaded for mercy because he was an orphan. The rightwing is to politics what the Menendez brothers were to family life.