MONTICELLO - Economic development can take place in many forms and fashions and by the production of all manner of items. But for one rapidly expanding business in Lawrence County, making green involves manufacturing brown - tons of it.

Low Pay Unit always existed to put itself out of business by ending low-wage work in Scotland. But with low pay becoming entrenched in the Scottish economy and political heat rising as pay falls behind inflation, its closure in April looks premature.

Unions continue to outstrip business groups in their fundraising for the coming battle over a statewide vote on a "right-to-work" amendment and several other ballot measures.

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Australian employment probably rebounded in June from the first jobs decline in 19 months, a sign the nation's mining boom is underpinning economic growth as domestic demand slows.

As a salesman for a health club in a suburb outside Puerto Rico's capital, Frank Oquendo saw up close how his earnings and the gym's membership base tanked along with Puerto Rico's economy.