The president introduces $447 billion jobs proposal, says it contains "nothing controversial."

GOP official calls jobs speech a "Groundhog Day moment."

If his ideas can even get past a divided Congress, they may be too mild to promote meaningful growth..

The Mississippi governor also endorses a social issues truce for now.

Job openings are rising modestly, a sign that employers may step up hiring soon.

How earnings of retirement-age workers can be affected by Social Security tax and benefit rules.

Even if you have a job, high unemployment shutters economic growth and hurts investment returns.

Republicans call on Obama to denounce Teamsters boss' diatribe against the Tea Party.

Debate marks a new turn in the race to pick a 2012 challenger to Obama.

Obama needs to stand up to Republicans.

Last month, U.S. employers slashed 216,000 jobs from their payrolls, their smallest cut since August 2008, the Labor Department reported today. The job number was largely in line with economists expectations. But it wasn't all ...

A look at the significance of the headline number, the monthly churn, and some unemployment rate quirks

The labor market is slowly healing, but for a while it will look worse.

These moves might do more than the Democrats’ latest “jobs bill.”

Private-sector jobs grew for the eighth month in a row.