IT is ironic that the Rudd Government is considering weakening the federal Job Network of employment agencies and its background ethos of meeting conditions for welfare, just as Britain is belatedly starting to copy it. There, as in Australia, unemploymen

WASHINGTON – The nation’s unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent last month as non-farm employment continued to fall, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Reports reveal youth sold to factories paying pennies per hour SHANGHAI, China -- China said Wednesday it was investigating whether hundreds or perhaps thousands of children from poor areas in the southwest part of the country were sold to work as slave

SAN GABRIEL - After enduring 29 gang-related shootings last year and a spate of gang-involved killings in January, Monrovia has had no gang shootings since then, thanks to the work of a joint-agency police task force, Monrovia police Chief Roger Johnson t

As 26-year-old Wes Meermans enjoyed a beer after work at a watering hole in downtown’s Historic North Market District, he ruminated on the city he adopted as home four years ago. “It’s almost like the San Francisco of the Midwest,” said the Intern