U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
Gang representatives in Chicago held a press conference Thursday to explain why gangs cannot be held solely responsible for stopping street violence, which has escalated this summer.
The Obama administration is weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and to combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
With the economy downshifting into first gear and their poll numbers sagging, the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are desperate for an economic and political game-changer as they head into the November elections. As it happens, there's one close at hand: the expiration of the "Bush" tax cuts at the end of the year. In this instance, the politics of obstructionism appear to work in the Democrats' favor. If Republicans follow ...
Private employers hired more workers than expected in August, lifting hopes for the weak U.S. economy, but the nations unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months.
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More than a quarter of employed U.S. workers suffered a bout of unemployment during the Great Recession that took many of them on an emotional roller coaster ride.
To most Americans, at least to those who are aware of the brand, Kia is still associated with the cheap-and-cheerful products. That's an image the automaker is out to transform.
The U.S. service sector, the nation's predominant job generator, expanded for the eighth straight month in August although the pace of growth slowed, according to a trade group survey.
It was a glass-half-full day for economic data on Thursday ... sort of.The upbeat news was tempered by worries about what Friday's unemployment report will say about the state of the labor market.
The plunge in interest rates has put the nations public and private pension funds badly underfunded, leaving pension fund managers with a giant hole to fill.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street advanced on Friday after a better-than-expected jobs report lifted investor optimism on the economy but gains were checked after data showed services sector activity slowed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up economic growth.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co posted lower-than-expected quarterly sales and forecast sales growth for the new fiscal year below its long-term target as the world's largest soup company grapples with a weak economy.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said he would address a package of new measures next week to boost U.S. growth and hiring as he greeted the August job report as positive news.
