SECRETARY RICE: Thank you very much. I’d like to thank Walter for that very kind introduction. I also really want to pay tribute to Jim Jones and the hard work that he has done as Special Envoy for Middle East Peace and Security. In fact, Jim has ...

Employment in the United States fell by a bigger-than-expected 240,000 in October, while September's fall was revised up massively to 284,000, meaning the world's biggest economy has shed over half a million jobs in the past two months alone.

Economists said the class of 2008 has been helped by employers concerned by the impending exodus of baby boomers from the work force, but that the job market is still going to get tougher.

A legislative panel presses the head of the Economic Development Corporation to explain what his group is doing to help the state’s depressed business climate.

North County's population dropped last year ---- a development that economists said last week was both a symptom of the region's sluggish economy and a potential cause for severe regional recession.