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The trade deficit might have widened in September, but try telling that to U.S. jewelry makers, loggers and machine manufacturers who have customers in other countries.
The recession delivered at least one major perk for the family pocketbook: Prices for everything from meat to heating fuel remain as tame as they've been in memory.
In a brutal job market, here's a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits.
If the recession really is ending, someone forgot to tell the nation's employers.
When it comes to preparing for a swine flu outbreak, the top concern for most U.S. business leaders is getting enough vaccine for their employees, according to a new survey.
Year-over-year figures are the bread-and-butter measurement of economic activity. When analysts want to know just how well a company or industry is performing, they compare current results to ones from a year earlier to see the big picture.
New unemployment data show why it will take years for the labor market to recover from one of its fastest and deepest declines since World War II, even if an economic recovery is around the corner.
When Labor Day arrives Monday, it will be celebrated by a work force that has changed radically since the same holiday in 2008.
There is a growing sense among economists that the worst of the recession might be over. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the labor market.
Some of the dirtiest, smelliest, most dangerous jobs are suddenly looking a lot more appealing in this economy.
Crop prices could rise this year because of dwindling supplies of U.S. corn and soybeans, raising fears of grain shortages and higher food costs for consumers.
Her job description says Madeline Adams is a social worker. But lately she's begun volunteering for tasks she never had before at the St. Louis marriage counseling agency where she works: planning events, ordering supplies, stocking shelves. She estimates she's put in hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime work.
A collapse in milk prices has wiped away the profits of dairy farmers, driving many out of business while forcing others to slaughter their herds or dump milk on the ground in protest. But nine months after prices began tumbling on the farm, consumers aren't seeing the full benefits of the crash at the checkout counter.
One week, a federal report says the number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance has unexpectedly dropped, pointing to a slowdown in layoffs. Good news, right? Maybe not.
Kenny Brinker is on the front lines of the national drive to prevent an outbreak of swine flu on U.S. hog farms. But he's not a public health worker. He's a hog farmer in central Missouri.
The U.S. Department of Labor will launch a national education program to help jobless workers avoid fees while collecting unemployment benefits through bank-issued debit cards.
Packaging Corp. of America is hardly an economic bellwether, but a boost in orders at the box maker might be among the early signs that the recession is easing.
In cubicles, factories and stores these days, anxious workers are trying to ease each other's economic fears with something akin to, "Well, at least we still have a job."
Key members of Congress on Friday criticized the growing number of state programs that use banks to pay unemployment benefits while collecting fees from jobless-aid recipients, saying action is needed.
For hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs during the recession, there's a new twist to their financial pain: Even as they're collecting unemployment benefits, they're paying bank fees just to get access to their money.
U.S. farmers delivered a bumper crop in 2008, according to a government report released Monday that eased fears of a looming food shortage but caused commodity prices to drop.
For one group of workers, the recession hasn't hit quite so hard.
A round of more than 15,000 layoffs announced Thursday by AT&T Inc., DuPont and Viacom Inc. suggests a yearlong wave of job cuts is accelerating, just as the government is expected to report a higher unemployment rate for November on Friday.
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days.
Investors are waiting for Don Tyson's second act.
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