tells us that the loss to the nation can't be measured simply by counting the number of unemployed people. We have to deal with the increasing length of unemployment and how it is addressed.
Ben Berkon | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy
Terrorists, who came to America with high hopes of destroying it, have found it difficult to find any terrorist-related work due to the hard economic times.
Pat Choate | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Direct government employment is the fastest, surest and least expensive - if not the only - way to create enough new jobs for American teens.
Max Wolff | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Today, we are not all seized by panic as the financial world collapses atop our heads. It remains to be seen and tested how many of our deep structural problems have been fixed. I am skeptical.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A top economic adviser to President Barack Obama on Friday acknowledged the risks of reining in too quickly the emergency programs ...
TIME | Joshua Cooper Ramo Friday, Sep. 11, 2009 | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Will creating jobs be that much slower too? Will double-digit unemployment persist even after we emerge from this recession? Has the idea of full empl...
Kari Henley | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Labor Day has lost its luster as a holiday. First celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City, the day consisted of a parade and celebrations to ...
Robert Reich | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
I keep hearing that the economic meltdown has taken a huge toll on the stock portfolios of the rich. That's true. But the rich haven't lost nearly as much of their assets, proportionately, as everyone else.
Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The problem is that Americans have too much debt and too little savings, and the country doesn't manufacture the goods that the rest of the world wants to buy. Until that changes jobs will continue to be scarce.
time.com | Justin Fox Friday, September 4, 2009 at 2:40 Pm | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Here in the U.S., stock market investors seem thrilled that the pace of job losses slowed a bit in August. Guess what happened up in Canada? Payroll e...
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Ugly as the recent 0.3 percentage point jump in the headline unemployment number is, a look behind that number is uglier still.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million.
John F. Wasik | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
There is visible progress from the stimulus spending. About $60 billion of the $288 billion in promised tax cuts has flowed into the pockets of most middle- and lower-class Americans.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The national unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent -- the highest level since June 1983 -- as the U.S. economy shed 216,000 jobs in August, the govern...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Unemployment rates are higher in every metropolitan area of the United States than the same time last year for the seventh consecutive month, the gove...
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Are these questions familiar? How many resumes did you send out today? Did you call so and so? How about going back on the search engines? Why is the house such a mess if you are home all day?
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
Japan's jobless rate hit a record 5.7% in July and consumer prices fell at a record pace, figures released days before a general election have shown....
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 p...
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
For communities of color, 'recovery' can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
The state-by-state unemployment numbers didn't change too much from June to July, the government announced on Friday. Fifteen states still have jobles...
AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
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AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, a sign that jobs remain scarce...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A bleak report on retail sales Thursday reinforced a nagging worry of economists: Shoppers won't spend enough to help a recovery ta...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.
Angie Cordeiro | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Wells Fargo made a mistake and has received over $25 billion dollars to correct it. Dollars that the bank said would be used to help stop foreclosures... I see no bailout.
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business