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The number of job positions waiting to be filled in the U.S. was 4.84 million in August, up from a revised 4.6 million the prior month, the Labor Department reported today in Washington.
The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called...
Updated: Oct 07, 2014 at 12:02 PM
WASHINGTON — Just how healthy is the U.S. job market?
Despite steady hiring and falling unemployment, the question has provoked sharp debate and considerable uncertainty.
Will millions without jobs who aren't looking for one eventually start lookin...
Updated: Oct 06, 2014 at 10:32 AM
WASHINGTON — The labor-market recovery that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen seeks is proving incomplete as many U.S. workers languish in part-time jobs.
Forty-nine percent of people working less than 35 hours a week in 2012 and desiring full-time...
Updated: Oct 06, 2014 at 10:31 AM
DETROIT - General Motors is recalling more than 60,000 vehicles in North America, the latest round of recalls this year for the automaker.
The company outlined three new recalls Saturday, the biggest of which affects 46,873 vehicles in the U.S.
The ...
Updated: Oct 05, 2014 at 08:38 AM
U.S. employers added 248,000 jobs in September, a burst of hiring that helped drive down the unemployment rate to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008.
The Labor Department report Friday also showed that employers added a combined 69,000 more jo...
Updated: Oct 04, 2014 at 08:41 AM
St. John the Evangelist School, a Catholic school in Streamwood, has been named a National Blue Ribbon School by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan along with other a select number of high achieving schools across the nation. Considered the nation...
Updated: Oct 03, 2014 at 10:11 AM
Elgin Area School District U-46 is partnering with the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to offer a series of college readiness events designed to guide high school seniors and their parents through the college application and financial aid pro...
Updated: Oct 06, 2014 at 04:11 PM
NEW YORK - The stock market sputtered to an indecisive close Thursday, taking a pause after three straight days of losses.
Small company stocks, which have slumped 10 percent from their early-July peak into what's known as a "correction," recovered...
Updated: Oct 03, 2014 at 09:16 AM
Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders.
A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, offering an en...
Updated: Oct 02, 2014 at 12:00 PM
No charges have been filed against a 25-year-old Naperville man whose “bizarre” statements prompted a nearly five-hour standoff at a pasta manufacturing plant in Bartlett.
Police said the unidentified man remains in police custody but will be taken ...
Updated: Oct 03, 2014 at 04:41 PM