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President Barack Obama is pushing for more private sector hiring while seeking to protect his own job during a two-day trip that aims to raise […]

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Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent.
The Labor Department report offered […]

Bundesbank President Axel Weber said today that European price pressures have increased significantly and that tighter monetary policy can be expected.
Weber, who is a […]

Johnson & Johnson says it will pay the U.S. government $70 million in fines to resolve an investigation into improper payments made by some of […]

Fewer Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, indicating the labor market is recovering.
Applications for jobless benefits fell 10,000 in the week […]

When oil prices briefly topped $100 a barrel last week, motorists had flashbacks to the bad old days of 2008.
That’s when gasoline prices soared to […]

All across the nation, teachers are coming under attack.
Hundreds of thousands of school employees — teachers, as well as aides, school nurses, librarians, administrators […]

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