WASHINGTON — The number of people on the jobless rolls is down by a fraction, but those figures could be deceiving: Economists expect the unempl...
Jason Mannino | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business
Eric's employment ad on Facebook positioned him as a positive candidate while simultaneously targeting the employers he was most interested in.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The economy is sending a message of hope laced with caution: That the recession is steadily easing, but new threats could delay any...
Lawrence Levi | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living
The Breadline is a website devoted to telling the tales of the unemployed -- in their own words. It's a place for fun commiseration, or, as we like to call it, "A blog of reduced circumstances and gallows humor.
Richard Walden | Posted 06.01.2009 | Entertainment
It is pornographic to continue the $5 billion 2008 election campaign just 5 months after we swore in a new President and new Congress.
AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business
DETROIT — Opening Day came early for employees Tuesday at Jack Kain's Ford, Lincoln, Mercury dealership, when Ford Motor Co. announced a new pro...
John Marshall | Posted 04.22.2009 | Comedy
One day there will even be nostalgia for the disaster we're in right now. Someone will sell credit default swap lunch boxes and make a movie about the fall of AIG starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
Until November, Lisa Traina had a classic New York glamour job: organizing private parties in the Art Deco opulence of the Rainbow Room. Now she spend...
AP | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Michigan's high unemployment is no laughing matter, but Jay Leno will offer a little comic relief with a free show next mo...
usatoday.com | Susan Page | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
"Maybe we were dreaming the American dream, you know what I mean?" says David McLimans, a steelworker. The mill he works for in suburban Philadelphia ...
Jill Andresky Fraser | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
According to a recently released AP-GfK poll, 32% of Americans are crazy. Oh, sorry. The poll actually revealed that 47% of those asked worry "a lot" or "some" about the possibility of losing their jobs.
New York Times | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
As governors in nine states, mostly in the South, consider rejecting millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for increased unemployment insuranc...
Brandon Perkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Like the million-plus people in this country over the last two months, I'm newly unemployed.
New York Times | PATRICK McGEEHAN | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business
Just as Michigan is scrambling to retrain laid-off auto workers, New York City officials have come up with a plan to find new work for the unemployed ...
Neal Rodriguez | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Despite President Obama's signing of the $787 Billion recovery plan, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's argued that 250,000 jobs will still be lost monthly.
Budget Travel | Alison Rohrs | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business
During these tough times, a few of my recently downsized friends have optimistically referred to their layoffs as extra vacation time. Karen Duncan, ...
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy
72,000 people lost their job this week. What does a voice of the unemployed have to say about it?
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
The support of female friends can help a woman get over the traumatic emotional and financial losses associated with being fired or let go. What can friends do?
Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Posted 02.14.2009 | Living
Astonishingly enough, what the government often does is give breaks to everyone except the people who need them the most. Less than 40 percent of unemployed workers receive UI benefits.
beliefnet.com | Jennifer Kushell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living
For the tens of thousands who have lost their jobs, and the millions of others fearing for the jobs they still have, YSN.com's Jennifer Kushell shares...
Shira Yael | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living
If "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness," than I have become temporarily less than human. Work is where I become who I am. Until then, there is the womb of my bedroom.
Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Of course Americans need jobs, but in the meantime, those who can't find them need unemployment insurance.
CNNMoney | Chris Isidore | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A government report on January jobs showing that employers trimmed payrolls for the first time in four years set off alarm bells. But the report, whi...
New York Times | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
America's economy is headed for a major slowdown. Whether there is a recession (two quarters of negative growth) is less important than the fact that ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business