The unemployed grapple with their losses on a daily basis. But what about the ranks of the still-employed who live in fear of being tapped for the next layoff or becoming the target of managers who can fire them at will?
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of job seekers competing for each opening has reached the highest point since the recession began, according to governme...
Crain's New York Business | Daniel Massey | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
A survey of low-income New Yorkers shows that two-thirds have less than $1,000 in savings to fall back on should even tougher times hit, while one-thi...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
44,000 deaths is the equivalent of 14.6 of Al Qaeda's 9/11s per year. It's 24 Katrina-scale disasters per year. It is a pandemic of omission and exclusion.
Karen Talavera | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Among all possible parties to play the role of eleventh-hour savior for Debbie Hobson, there was our good ol' US government -- the IRS no less -- just doing its job.
Martha McCully | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
The pace of making money in this new world is so different than what I'm used to. When I first left the steady paycheck eighteen months ago, each day that would go by where I didn't make a penny caused a panic.
Andrew Ruben | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
If we've really survived the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression thanks to government intervention, and if health care reform is so integral to fulfilling the American promise, where is Obama's "New Deal"?
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
Stocks are up. Ben Bernanke says that the recession is over. And I sense a growing willingness among movers and shakers to declare "Mission Accomplish...
Liz Black | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
I want to have a reason to wake up in the morning, change my clothes and get out of the house. I want to use my creative brain for something more than quirky tweets and stylish outfit choices.
health.com | Theresa Tamkins | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living
Are you finally ready for some good news about the recession? Although it seems hard to believe, a shaky economy might actually be good for your heal...
Bloomberg | James Tyson and Michael McKee | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker said the rise of China and other emerging economies has underscored a decline in the comparative economic...
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 11.26.2009 | Business
The argument is if the Fed had acted more quickly regarding the housing market then the current problems would've been avoided. There's one problem: what's the exact definition of a bubble?
John J. Castellani | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
New rules would limit the flexibility of U.S. businesses to redeploy capital to geographic areas that show the most promise for growth and also eliminate vital foreign tax credits.
latimes.com | Marc Lifsher | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
Reporting from Sacramento - Toyota Motor Corp. is closing California's last automobile plant, but that isn't keeping the factory from asking the stat...
Gloria Duffy | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
Our workforce needs to develop a more skeptical attitude towards schemes that promise leaps in wealth but are hollow at the core, and likely to leave workers stranded before long.
Gene Karpinski | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
The new energy frontier is being charted as Americans sit idly by and miss out on millions of new jobs that cannot be exported and American-made competitive technologies that should be.
Eric Lotke | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh provides an opportunity for Americans to move beyond shibboleths of free trade and protectionism and to question the true functioning of the market.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
The hype around the stock bubble will most likely weaken any resolve to deal with the huge challenges posed by an out-of-control finance sector and a failing global economy.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Moore is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values, and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings.
Washington Post | Cecilia Kang | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Google chief economist Hal Varian is pretty confident the national economy is recovering, and he's not just basing that on government data. He says h...
Washington Post | Michael D. Shear | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
A top economic adviser to President Obama began a concerted White House effort on Friday to claim credit for the improving economy, declaring that the...
McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
After a year of economic crisis and an even longer slump, the nation's retailers are facing a consumer who's more reluctant to buy than ever before in...
Roberto G. Quercia | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Irrational exuberance? We think not. Market participants responding rationally to a range of short term economic incentives are the root causes of the crisis.
Yahoo! News | Sven Egenter | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
GENEVA (Reuters) �" Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world's most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking ...
The Guardian | Kathryn Hopkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Britain's employers are reporting improved recruitment plans for the first time in three years, offering a "glimmer of hope" to jobseekers in the run-...
Susan Older | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living