Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine will seek new transportation work and school construction to boost employment as part of an economic stimulus proposal he will present to a joint legislative session today.

A struggling US economy lost 159,000 jobs in September as the weight of the housing collapse and credit crunch hit a broad swath of industries, government data showed Friday.

Reforms to the federal Employment Insurance program are urgently needed to help cushion workers and employers against a looming global recession that has already pulled the rug from under the country's manufacturing sector, business, union and some polit

Consumers, the backbone of the economy, are taking a beating from the worst economic crisis in seven decades and there is little prospect of that letting up soon.

The year was 1999, the economy was booming, and hopes were high that a small, unknown venture-capital fund investing in American and Chinese businesses would deliver a big payday to suburban pension funds.