UNEMPLOYMENT

Spaniards continue to protest against unemployment for the seventh day across the country defying a ban on demonstrations before the elections.

There seems to be a broad-based strengthening in the labor market with the growth of payrolls in 42 U.S. states and a decline in unemployment rate in 39 states in April.

History will remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a man who put the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the road to decline, and that the new leadership should bring about a fundamental rethink of the fund's economic programs for the European periphery, leading think tank American Enterprise Institute has said.

Protesters in Madrid have camped out in the central square for the fourth consecutive night.

The number of jobs in New Jersey increased by 14,000 during the month of April, the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Thursday. It was the third consecutive month that the Garden State recorded job growth. The state added 13,400 private-sector jobs and 600 public jobs, while the unemployment rate remained 9.3 percent.

John Lipsky—Acting Managing Director, International Monetary Fund delivered the following speech at Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee on May 19, 2011.

Minutes from the last FOMC meeting held April 26-27, 2011.

Over the past several decades, some very alarming long-term economic trends have developed that are absolutely destroying the economy. Here are 50 hard facts and statistics that show the negative trends in several areas of the economy. If dramatic changes are not made soon, a complete and total economic collapse becomes a possibility

The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah's Witness' constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled.

Seventy out of 278 parks will be closed down to save money for California State, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration announced on Friday.

Over the past decade, the number of middle class jobs has fallen by about ten percent. There is a reason for this. America is becoming poorer. The economic pie is shrinking. When we ship 40 to 50 billion dollars into the hands of foreigners every single month, that means that there is a lot less wealth for all of us to divide up.

Global equity markets, commodities and currencies continue to move lower on the heels of concerns about Greece

There's no such thing as home sweet home if the place you live in is making you depressed. If your place is giving you mental stress, it will greatly affect you. Some states are depressive because of the economic instability and the inadequate access to health care. Here are the top 10 most depressing states in the U.S.

Public services have been halted including trains, ferries and flights have been disrupted by the protests in Athens on Wednesday morning.

Greece has been brought to a standstill by a massive strike called by labor unions to protest to government’s austerity programs.

The Islamic Republic of Iran finds itself grappling with new realities in a Middle East that has been turned upside-down by an unprecedented wave of revolt and rebellion

Today’s release of April’s jobs data was a real game changer for investor psychology.

Silver Bullion rallied from a drop below $34 per ounce, the fifth daily plunge running and some 31% below last Thursday's new three-decade high. Dollar prices to Buy Gold whipped in a $10 range Friday morning in London, trading up to $1488 per ounce - some 5.5% below Monday's record-high spike- as European equities and global commodities stemmed their losses.

Though the unemployment rate did tick up to 9%, the U.S. economy had a net increase of 244,000 jobs in April.

The White House and Republicans agreed on Friday that jobs growth is not coming quickly enough despite the latest report showing that private sector jobs growth has continued to growth for the last 14 months.

The latest jobs report released Friday was welcome news but nowhere close to where it should be thanks to tax uncertainty and spending plans being put forward by Democrats in the White House and the Senate, House Speaker John Boehner said.