Many Americans will choose a backyard hammock over an airline flight during the long Labor Day weekend this year, according to a report released Monday by a trade association representing major U.S. carriers. In yet another indicator of a sputtering world

Perhaps the sweetners in the bailout bill, encouraged the house to pass it or it could have also been the latest unemployment numbers.  Hours before the vote, the Labor Department announced a loss of 159-thousand jobs in September.  That puts unemployme

China has introduced important reforms since June 2007 that make it easier for businesses to obtain credit, pay taxes and enforce contracts, according to Doing Business 2009 - the sixth in a series of annual reports published by the World Bank Group's In

A new report out yesterday by a national farm group found that current labor and immigration laws would negatively impact New Jersey's economy by creating a labor shortage on the state's hundreds of farms. Now several state and national farm advocacy gr

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana's annual employment growth slowed in August as the national economy continued to stagger, but the state still showed a boost of 18,200 non-farm jobs from a year ago, the state labor department reported Thursday.