Topic: Job Growth
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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home
Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
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Top 10 metros for job growth
Some metropolitan areas have a booming jobs market, thanks to energy, manufacturing, or sometimes just the right mix of highly diversified industries. Here's a look at the 10 metros that have seen the largest percentage increase in jobs over the past 12 months:
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Six points where Mitt Romney and his economic advisers are mostly wrong
Mitt Romney’s economic plan is largely based on a whitepaper written by several “heavyweight” economists. The problem is, it's riddled with fundamental flaws. Here are six points where Mitt Romney and his economic advisers are mostly wrong about what ails the American economy and how to fix it.
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Jobs report: 3 views on the best way to create jobs in the US
The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy added 171,000 jobs in October, while unemployment rose to 7.9 percent. As the eighth and final installment of our One Minute Debate series for election 2012, three writers give their brief take on the best way to create jobs in the United States.
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Seven battleground states: Does economy help Obama or Romney?
Seven states have emerged as battlegrounds that may well determine the 2012 presidential election. Here's a look at seven battleground states and how their economic situation is shaping the presidential election:
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How a Speaker Boehner would create jobs, and fix a broken Washington
At a Monitor lunch with reporters, House Minority Leader John Boehner says that if he were speaker, he would do three things to create jobs. He would also work with Democrats.
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Unemployment extension? Pooh. North Dakota hits jobs record.
While Senate pushes unemployment extension, federal data shows more North Dakotans hold jobs than ever before. Alaska is also near its record.
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Why temporary census hires might have thrown off the recovery
The point of employment is not just jobs: it is productive and economically viable jobs. If there is no consumer-driven demand for the things people are doing, their jobs are nothing more than waste.
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What you can do to help small business
Small businesses face considerable challenges, yet, they are an important engine for job creation. Here are a few things the public can do to support local small businesses.
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GOP's jobs ideas: Keep Bush tax cuts, freeze regulations
Employers won't create jobs until they have a clear sense of what comes next in taxes and regulation, say Republicans. House GOP leader John Boehner proposes a moratorium on new government regulations for a year and keeping the Bush tax cuts.
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Is stimulus plan working? The arguments pro and con.
A white House report released Wednesday said the stimulus plan has saved or created as many as 3.6 million jobs. But polls show Americans are skeptical.
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10 ways to create jobs
Is government-as-venture-capitalist, selecting which companies to lend directly to, an inherently failing policy?
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The Monitor's View: Look to can-do governors for ideas on jobs and economy
In November, 37 states will elect governors, and there's really only one issue that will sway voters' choices: how to boost jobs with economic growth.
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In concert, South Africa jazz great Hugh Masekela prays for racial peace
Many of South Africa's poorest are spreading rumors that all foreign migrant workers will be chased from their homes or killed after the World Cup. But at a concert this week, South Africa jazz great Hugh Masekela reminded South Africans of the essential humanity of their concept of ubuntu.
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Unemployment rate drops to 9.5 percent, but US economy sheds jobs
Much of the drop in the unemployment rate occurred because disappointed workers stopped looking for jobs.
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US-backed loans to expand nuclear power: a boon for overseas jobs?
A report released Thursday finds that all 18 firms lining up for tens of billions in US-backed loans for new nuclear power plants would use overseas jobs to build most of them.
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Temp jobs: Now is the best time to get one. Here's how.
Temp jobs are increasingly in demand by companies across many sectors. Here are six ways to find the right assignment and turn it into a permanent job.
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A lesson in reasonable fiscal policy
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer emphasizes middle-path strategies for both stimulating growth and controlling deficit spending.
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A no-jobs jobs bill?
It's not clear that the incentives and subsidies included in the $80 billion jobs bill will spur job growth.
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Vexed by BP oil spill, Obama aims to show better news on jobs
Ending a week dominated by the BP oil spill, President Obama goes to Columbus, Ohio, to defend his $787 stimulus package and tout its jobs-producing effect.
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US economy in a self-made vise
The US made the vise that's squeezing its economy.
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With Whitman and Fiorina, can GOP compete again in California?
California has voted solidly Democratic in recent elections. But the national GOP may be hoping that, with Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina as standard-bearers there, the party can broaden its appeal.
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US is falling Into a double-dip recession
Only 41,000 jobs were added by the private sector last month. It's one sign the economy is headed toward a double-dip recession.
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Dow plunges below 10000 amid bad news on euro and US jobs
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 9931, below the symbolically important 10000 mark. It has slid in five of the past six weeks. Debt in Europe and tepid US job market are triggers.
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Jobs numbers for May squelch some economic optimism
Private sector businesses added just 41,000 new jobs in May, leading Republicans to criticize Obama's economic plan. But analysts see a few bright spots.
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Goodbye, Vegas. It's a D.C. economy now.
Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., are on opposite ends of the economic spectrum, with Washington and Washington-style regulation on the rise.
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With election looming, Obama joins partisan finger-pointing
Obama struck a combative tone in a speech in Pittsburgh Wednesday, making sharp jabs at the Republicans and BP in what could be a taste of the run-up to the November elections.
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President Obama to push for tax credits as part of small business assistance plan
In remarks scheduled for Tuesday, President Obama will push for tax credits and other items as part of a plan to help small businesses across the US.
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In Ohio, Obama says his policies have created jobs. Is that true?
Visiting a manufacturing plant in Youngstown, Ohio, President Obama said the $787 billion Recovery Act helped avert a possible depression. Critics – especially Republicans – aren't so sure.
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A sign of economic recovery? For the fourth straight week, a dip in claims for unemployment benefits.
The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week by 4,000, the fourth weekly decline in a row.
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