Before the economy tanked, the U.S. had 435 House members, 100 senators, and 50 governors. After the tanking: 435 House members, 100 senators, and 50 governors. What's wrong with this picture?
James Boyce | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media
Ironically, delivering news through new media is cheap, fast and easy. Readers made the transition, it's just too bad so many newspapers, with so many good people, never did.
Brandon Perkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Like the million-plus people in this country over the last two months, I'm newly unemployed.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 03.28.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Employers took a large ax to their payrolls in January, the government said Wednesday, and the cuts are likely to get worse over th...
Mark Miller | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
COBRA is the federal program that allows workers to hold on to their health insurance benefits after a job loss. The measure is a stop on the way toward an envisioned universal health system.
Charlotte Observer | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
The Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is laying off 55 employees - about 10 percent of its staff. "With the economy the way it is...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — February is shaping up to be another brutal month of job losses: The number of laid-off workers receiving unemployment benefits hit...
Candy Spelling | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
For the first time ever in our country's history -- due in part to recent massive layoffs and cutbacks -- women will soon outnumber men in the full-time U.S. workforce. Equal numbers and equal pay?
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
These are difficult times, but that doesn't mean companies aren't innovating. Some people make the mistake of maintaining the status quo and not trying anything new.
Grant Cardone | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
There is a disconnect between what is being taught in schools and what is needed and valued in the marketplace.
Vicky Ward | Posted 03.12.2009 | Style
I've never been prouder of the friends who've stoically accepted the axe but have kept their ideas flowing and their sense of humor -- even as they hunt for work.
Jason Mannino | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living
With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, there has been a lot of talk about "change" and optimism. Some even think we have been hearing ab...
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
Are you unemployed and working harder than ever?
Ron Galloway | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
WalMart has 1.4 million employees at its 4000 U.S. locations. These employees have one thing in common: a job. Maybe not the most rewarding job in the world, but a job nonetheless.
Health.com | Kate Stinchfield | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living
If you've recently been handed a pink slip, you likely have a lot of free time on your hands. Once you've got your severance package and health insura...
Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama ...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Layoffs are spiking as the recession rips through the country, with retailers, banks, factories and others cutting costs ever deepe...
New York Times | David Segal | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
Monday was the last day of Iris Chau's 11-year career at JPMorgan Chase and she says there's a lot she'll miss about the job, including her colleagues...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business
After death and divorce, the most likely source of grief for most people is caused by unemployment. You can survive if you follow the old military adage: "Embrace the suck."
Judith Ellis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
I understand the correlation between an audition and an interview intimately. I always look at both as a performance.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics
This week -- a week that saw unemployment claims hit a 42-year high, January layoffs hit 125,000, and President Obama call the economy "a continuing disaster" -- delivered a hard-to-top nominee for our Marie Antoinette Award: disgraced scam artist Bernie Madoff, who still so doesn't get it that he had the gall to bellyache about being cooped up in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment under "penthouse arrest" -- even as his victims face financial ruin. On the What Were They Thinking? front (Journalism Division), came word that Bill Kristol, hot on the heels of being dropped by the Times, was being picked up by the Washington Post, which is apparently eager to publish more unerring insights like Kristol's July 2007 gem: "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one."
New York Post | KEITH J. KELLY | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media
The top editor of Martha Stewart's flagship magazine has been bounced as part of a restructuring designed to cope with rapidly declining advertising r...
New York Times | Jonathan Glater | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business
First layoffs, then lawsuits. More workers are being let go as corporate layoffs that began in earnest last year have accelerated in recent weeks. An...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
The mass layoffs aren't something we can afford to simply sigh about and treat as inevitable. There needs to be a national discussion on these job losses.
Lauren DiGiulio | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style
I was hired by my friend's company after they laid off most of the staff to look like I worked there during an important meeting. Pretend to be an architect for an hour and get paid $100?! Yes, please! Pass the foam core!
Dave Astor | Posted 04.04.2009 | Comedy