Job Growth

14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

Geithner On Meet The Press: Worried Banks May Be Too Timid (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too hi...

Hiring Tax Credit: Support Builds For Proposal Rewarding Employers For Hiring, More Hours

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07tax.html | Catherine Rampell | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among ...

Not Your Father's Recovery: Signs Point To Weak Economic Rebound

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business


Washington Post: The wounded U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement in recent weeks. But many economists, who were caught off guard by the bruta...

Hey Americans, You Want Economic Recovery? Spend Some Money, Dammit!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

What we need is a more forceful President Obama encouraging consumers to loosen the purse-strings a bit.

The Face of Unemployment in New York City

William C. Thompson, Jr. | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York


William C. Thompson, Jr.

I found that the recession's impacts have fallen most heavily on a number of specific groups including men, African-Americans, prime-age workers, and the well-educated.

A Lost Decade For Jobs

BusinessWeek | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business


Private sector job growth was almost non-existent over the past ten years. Take a look at this horrifying chart:...

The Seventy Percent Solution

Marco Trbovich | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business


Marco Trbovich

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

Labor Dept: Solid Job Gains, Wage Growth In November

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Employers added a solid 94,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 percent and wages grew briskly, encouragin...

November Job Growth Is Year's Highest

Reuters | Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Private employers added 189,000 jobs in November for the largest monthly increase in a year, a private employment service said on Wednesday. The bulk...