Commercial service airports are an important engine for Iowa’s economy, generating 14,209 jobs and $1.3 billion in total annual economic activity, a state consultant’s report released Monday shows.

The Small Business Advisory Group (SBAG) has thrown in the towel on a key issue they reckon many small businesses want. They lobbied for a 12-month grievance-free period giving employers the right to hire and fire as they wish.

A German auto supplier that opened a technical center in Auburn Hills sees growth in Michigan as a way to mitigate the high cost of doing business in Europe. Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG, which makes pistons, engine blocks, oil pumps and other components, ex

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- German unemployment , enjoying its longest decline since reunification in 1990, fell at a slower pace in July as the economy cooled.

More teens will be looking for summer jobs this year than last -- but fewer will be getting them. After sinking to a new low in 2007, teen summer employment is expected to fall again, to the lowest rate in the 60-year history of government jobs data.