The crowds of unemployed people trying to get retraining have so swamped long-underfunded community colleges and other job skills programs that many communities now have waiting lists of six months or more.
Lou Dobbs is making a new promise: He will be back talking his red-meat issues in public very soon. In a letter just received, he says: "I will be in the public arena and engaged." His areas of interest: "Illegal...
Tonight, we'll hear a laundry list of proposals from the administration--from education to renewable fuels, and, of course, healthcare reform. Politically, however, only one top...
ELYRIA, Ohio — A combative President Barack Obama exhorted Congress Friday to pass a new job-creation bill, taking a populist appeal to America's recession-racked Rust Belt in hopes of recapturing the energy of his campai...
As retirement accounts continue to hemorrhage money, many baby boomers are coming to the realization that they'll need to continue working into their traditional retirement years. In fact, a whopping 70 percent of Americans age...
WASHINGTON -- The White House has abandoned its controversial method of counting jobs under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus, making it impossible to track the number of jobs saved or created with the $787 billion...
The U.S. economy lost 524,000 jobs in December, boosting the unemployment rate from a revised 6.8 percent in November to 7.2 percent—a level most economists did not expect to see until 2009.