Europe is sliding into recession, and gas prices are still high. But the real problem lies closer to home. Cuts in government spending are reducing domestic demand precisely at the time when consumers are reaching the end of their ropes and can't spend more.
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.28.2012
Snooki, The Situation, JWoww and all the rest of the Jersey Shore cast have made the beach destination synonymous with late night partying and a lifes...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2012
Make no mistake -- anyone that talks about closing the SBA is anti-small business and is simply marching to the beat of the Fortune 500 firms that unfortunately have tremendous control over Congress.
Christopher Haugh | Posted 05.21.2012
The twilight cohort of the millennial generation is caught in a matrix of impossible expectations in a world suddenly unwilling to open its doors.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.09.2012
HOUSTON — Raising campaign cash in Republican territory, President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a rebounding economy and accused Republicans of...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON — In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would p...
Huff TV | Posted 01.06.2012
Arianna discussed the U.S.'s economic troubles on ABC's 'This Week With Christiane Amanpour.' "There is a sense of bit of a Groundhog Day feeling," s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 08.03.2011
This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com. For the past three months, the millions of Americans who've been getting b...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 08.03.2011
We can smooth out the month-by-month data all we want, but the fact is that job growth in the United States is just too slow to provide working families with the job and income opportunities they need.
Robert Reich | Posted 08.03.2011
The May jobs report is a disaster -- the weakest reading since September. The recovery has stalled. And while we're not in a double-dip recession yet, the odds of it are increasing.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011
Unemployment this morning has come in at 8.9%, the best number we've seen in years. Unfortunately, this number -- like almost every other number -- ha...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
On our current trajectory, the unemployment rate will continue to decline. But so will the pay and benefits of most Americans. The real story isn't about jobs, it's about the ever decreasing standard of living for the middle class.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
At a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow is flirting with 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you'd expect jobs be coming back. But you'd be wrong.
Heather McGhee | Posted 05.25.2011
The American people want jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Yet the President's party has failed to make the simple case that spending is essential to creating jobs in the short-term.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
I realize that you, as a mother and as someone who came from a hardworking middle class family, could not only sympathize, but also help with the situation we are currently in.
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Stocks fell to their lowest level in four months Friday after the government said hiring remains weak and another European country wa...
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
We cannot ignore the deficit hawks forever, but now is not the time for austerity. We should be talking about the three government actions that we know would most immediately create millions of new jobs.
Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011
What is Washington thinking? Losing a job is a human calamity. Families buckle under the pressure. Divorce, spousal abuse, child neglect soar. Homelessness increases along with malnutrition.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
The President should order BP to establish a $5 billion clean-up fund, and immediately put America's army of unemployed young people to work saving the Gulf coast. Call it the new Civilian Conservation Corps.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
The job numbers show that, in the short term, we need more stimulus -- especially extended unemployment benefits and aid to state and local governments. But the deficit crazies in the Senate last week shot that down.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
When the economy is still so hard on so many, it's important to distinguish between entrepreneurial zeal and self-employed desperation.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans desperately need both health care reform and jobs. Even if it's difficult for many to make the connection, it's still possible for the nation to try to do two important things at the same time.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Brace for a year of stubbornly high unemployment. Gripped by uncertainty over the economic recovery, employers chopped 85,000 jobs...
Samuel H. Williamson | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Two years of steep job cuts all but ended last month, unexpectedly pulling down the unemployment rate and raising hopes for a lasti...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.03.2012