Americans would like businesses to start thinking about more than just the bottom line. Most people say that major companies care most about their ...

Federal workers make more than a quarter less than private sector employees doing similar jobs, according to a recent study. Federal employees mak...

When it comes to an economy trying to right itself, if it's not one thing, it's another. Even as the economy seems to be moving -- slowly -- in the...

The simple notion that China might be part of that new fund is sending waves throughout Europe. Does Europe need the IMF and China to resolve a $500 billion problem?

With such pessimistic news permeating the media, it is no surprise that financial professionals are less than enthusiastic about the U.S. economy's outlook for the coming year.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are fewer people employed now than back in January 2009 when Barack Obama was sworn in as Pres...

NEW YORK - The pace of U.S. private sector job growth slowed in August for the second month in a row with employers adding 91,000 positions, a rep...

Companies are not hiring, but it's not because they're worried about the national debt. The economy is not growing, but it's not because the public se...

Although the U.S. private sector added only around 54,000 jobs in May, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, still says t...

NEW YORK - Consumer confidence slid in May as consumers turned more pessimistic on the outlook for the labor market and inflation worries rose, ac...

WASHINGTON (Tim Reid) - At least 219 former officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have left since 2006 to help clients with business...

David N. Miller, the chief investment officer of the Treasury Department's bailout program, is planning on leaving the government at the end of the mo...

One big reason public employees are under siege in Wisconsin and other states is because they now enjoy more secure retirement benefits than most priv...

Paulson's interview with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may leave you wishing he was still in Washington. He highlights the absurdity of claims that the FCIC reached a "partisan" conclusion.

There does seem to be a growing resentment of union workers in the United States as other workers' standards of living decrease. But are we at the point of a class war between these two sectors or is this just some conservative fantasy?