WASHINGTON — Call it the Terrible Teens. The decade ahead could be a brutal one for America's unemployed – and for people with jobs hopin...
McClatchy | Jenny Gold | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Laid-off workers may soon get a reprieve from one of their worries: health insurance. A proposal to extend the health insurance subsid...
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
The experience of running convinced me that women have a tremendous natural ability for politics. We just have to get over our fear of it and go for the brass ring.
Pauline Millard | Posted 12.14.2009 | Media
There is an entire sector of jobs that are dissolving every day. It would be wise for those involved to accept it, move on, or else plan to spend a lot time unemployed.
Erik Ose | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books
Current Waldenbooks employees have come forward to alert the public that the company plans to dispose of many unsold books in the cheapest, easiest, least responsible way possible - by trashing them.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
If you commissioned an ad firm to come up with a two word description of the economy that would provoke great feelings of anger and resentment, they'd have a tough time coming up with something better than "jobless recovery."
nytimes.com | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan announced Tuesday that it had laid off 180 of its 3,800 employees, blaming the recession and two years of health care...
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts. District Superintendent Ramon Co...
LA Daily News | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Unified school board is expected to vote on a two-year budget plan today that calls for the elimination of more than 5,000 district po...
Aaron Glantz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
Unless Congress and Obama create a "bold jobs program," state and local governments could shed almost a million jobs next year, further worsening our national unemployment rate, labor leaders say.
LA Daily | Posted 12.01.2009 | Los Angeles
Ever the Debbie Downer of City Hall, Councilman Bernard Parks says it's time to pay the piper: The city faces a $408 million deficit next year, a $98 ...
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
ABC News | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
When the pink slip comes, trouble follows -- financial, but emotional as well. Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...
nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Erin Einhorn | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg's administration quietly reported an unexpected tax windfall of $683 million this year - of which $145 million will exempt cops, firef...
Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
The pioneering, Emmy-Award winning channel was originally conceived by Gore and businessman Joe Hyatt as a peer-to-peer news and information network.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Tammy Compton of the Wayne...
New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time Inc. is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including an...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Attila Streyar and his t...
Don McNay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
If anyone has ever dreamed of being an office holder, 2010 is the year to do it. There are going to be several situations where voters elect a complete unknown, just to express their anger about the incumbent.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In Utah, Dr. Rachot Vacha...
Greg Coleman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Over the five months that I took off from work, I learned a lot of very valuable lessons and came out of the experience feeling like the luckiest guy in the world. But it didn't start out that way.
Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Yesterday afternoon the New York Times announced it would be cutting 100 newsroom jobs, about 8% total, by the end of the year. To do so the paper wo...
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 12.26.2009 | Business