Whether Washington should let that play out — risking hundreds of thousands of jobs — is a central question Congress will weigh this week.

Author Nicholas Nigro aims to be defiantly uplifting with a combination of psychological and financial self-help advice.

When a company lays off 50 or more workers, the government considers this to be an “event,” almost as if it were a wedding or a concert.

Good work is a calling that combines excellent performance, expresses one’s ethics and offers a pleasing sense of engagement.

An export slowdown that has been magnified by the global financial crisis is contributing to the shutdown of factories in China’s coastal regions.

Labor experts say the hardships of the gathering recession will hurt the working poor and younger job seekers most of all.

Labor unions, delighted to have a friend in the White House, plan to push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to unionize.

Labor experts say the hardships of the gathering recession will hurt the working poor and younger job seekers most of all.

A sabbatical or leave of absence from a job can make good sense, even in dismal economic times like these.

The toll of lost jobs rose to 1.2 million for the year as 240,000 American jobs disappeared in October.