Sprint argues that the proposed takeover would harm retail consumers and corporate customers by causing higher prices and less innovation.
Defying expectations, the U.S. service sector expanded at a slightly faster pace in August -- but remains too weak to help a sluggish economy that's not creating enough jobs.
The latest poll numbers are not good for President Barack Obama: if the 2012 presidential election were held today, the race would be very close, and Obama could easily lose in several hypothetical match-ups.
Major stock indexes fell more than 2 percent on Tuesday on fears the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis was worsening and the U.S. economy was sliding back into recession.
Mitt Romney's jobs plan that he plans to announce Tuesday likely has received some input from advisers of another familiar politician: George W. Bush.
President Barack Obama hinted in a Labor Day address that he could use Thursday's highly anticipated speech on job creation to unveil an initiative to restore the nation's deteriorating infrastructure.
This vast landlocked country just north of Nigeria and east of Mali, is one of the poorest nations on Earth
With more than a million unemployed construction workers across the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday said he intends to spend to rebuild America's infrastructure and boost hiring, which will be key components of a plan he is working on to stimulate the U.S. economy.
Obama is under extreme pressure after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Friday that the economy added zero jobs in August.
President Barack Obama previewed proposals on Monday for new infrastructure spending and an extension of payroll tax cuts as part of a major jobs package he will unveil this week, and challenged Republicans to find common ground with him.
President’s speech in Detroit rallies supporters.
European stocks got hammered on Monday and the euro tumbled as well, as investors moved into safe assets. Rising fears over Europe's sovereign debt crisis and economic growth concerns in Europe and the U.S. is driving the move away from equities. The yield on the benchmark 10-year German government bond fell to well below two percent -- a new record. The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 4.1 percent Monday, closing at 223.45.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada had an unemployment rate of 12.9 percent in August, ranking it a dubious number one in the nation.
Here are numbers showing job losses.
The true unemployment figure in the city might be as high as an astounding 50 percent.
DeMint declined to declare who the Republican favorite is now.
Presidential contender Mitt Romney tried to win over doubters from the conservative Tea Party movement on Sunday, telling them he was the Republican candidate who can beat back the heavy hand of government and create jobs.
The United States enters this Labor Day faced with many problems, and the most serious of which concerns jobs -- the state of working America is in its most trying condition in generations, with the unemployment at a very high 9.1 percent, and the nation short at least 11 million jobs.
Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform.
To say it's been a discomforting time for U.S. stock investors lately would be an understatement. Europe debt concerns, a tepid U.S. economic recovery that’s not creating enough jobs, and now Hurricane Irene’s damage has jolted institutional investors. Given the above, where’s the Dow headed from here?
Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States’ problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth -- three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.’s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.
President Barack Obama, under fire over high unemployment, stepped up pressure on Congress on Saturday to pass transportation legislation he said would protect almost 1 million American jobs.
