Consumer spending and incomes barely rose last month. Business investment has slowed. New-home sales remain dismal.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis is making available approximately $98.5 million through the Workforce Innovation Fund to back employment and training services.

The National Labor Relations Board is delaying for a second time a rule that requires employers to display worker's rights, including the right to organize a union.

Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday signed legislation that blocks taxpayer-paid health insurance from being offered to domestic partners living with some public employees.

After weeks of bickering and doubt, Congress delivered a last-minute holiday tax cut extension to 160 million workers Friday along with further unemployment benefits for millions laid off in the nation's fierce recession and weak economic recovery. It was a convincing victory for President Barack Obama, a humbling retreat for...

For all his problems with the economy, President Barack Obama is getting unexpected help from a Republican Party that seems incapable of capitalizing on its advantages.

What has me scratching my head is this little tidbit: Our biggest article this year (pun intended) was not about the economy or health care mandates or the Supreme Court ruling. It was about overweight people.

Their isolation complete, House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers.