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Fears of an economic slowdown are heightening anticipation of what Friday's U.S. jobs report for January might reveal. Stock markets have sunk after signs of...

Macy's Inc. is cutting 2,500 jobs as part of a reorganization to sustain its profitability. The announcement comes on the heels of a strong holiday...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he'll cut the Pentagon's headquarters' budget by $1 billion from 2014 through 2019, which will lead to layoffs...

Fifty years ago today, when more than 200,000 protesters took to Washington to demand racial equality, they came with specific policy ideas too, many of...

NEW YORK – Stock futures were mixed Friday, after the United States reported that the unemployment rate dropped to 7.4 percent in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their...

A bill before the Illinois General Assembly seeks to raise the state's minimum wage from its current $8.25 an hour to $10 an hour over three years. This is a follow-up to a bill in the previous legislative session that sought to raise the minimum wage to as much as much as $15.25 an hour over a 10-year period. That bill never gained traction. Prop ...

Shopping carts are corralled by an employee outside a Wal-Mart store in East Peoria, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg...