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Record profits. Job openings. Shareholders making money. It's not what you might think in Michigan, home to the country's highest unemployment rate, but a century-old company is in robust health thanks to achy, thifty Americans.
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
The Indian government is pushing ahead with economic reforms aimed at achieving a growth rate of more than 7 percent next year but will make sure the benefits reach the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.
Low prices, solid customer service and an increasing willingness by consumers to spend on discretionary items contributed to Amazon.com Inc.'s solid third quarter, and the growth should continue despite weakness elsewhere in retail.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO and President Mike Duke promised investors Thursday that the retailer's aggressive price-cutting will not hurt its stock price, even as the company issued a modest forecast for U.S. expansion this year and next.
ST. LOUIS - Following the lead of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and the stock market, the nation’s top business economists, gathering here for their annual meeting, have declared “the Great Recession of 2008-09 is over.” But the forecasters aren’t exactly popping champagne corks about what they see coming next.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the United States has a lot of support from other Group of 20 nations to move toward more balanced global growth.
There’s growing optimism about signs of life in the economy as the pace of job losses slows. But this recovery – when it comes – won’t feel like any in memory. By John W Schoen.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT'-nur) says the economy is expected to grow later this year and unemployment could ease in the second half of 2010.
Fewer Americans took cruises in 2008 than 2007, according to new industry data, showing that cruising's core constituency may be weakening despite continued growth in the pastime worldwide.
Israelis moving to the West Bank accounted for more than a third of settler population growth in recent years, government statistics show, undercutting Israel's argument that it is continuing settlement construction only to accommodate growing families already living there.
Here is a look at states with the most and the fewest clean energy jobs in 2007 and the percentage of growth from 1998 to 2007 as identified in a new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts:
The fledgling renewable energy industry has grown steadily over much of the past decade, adding jobs at more than twice the national rate, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Wednesday.
The price of electricity and fuel could rise sharply and economic growth could be stifled in the Southeast and elsewhere in the country under tax proposals being considered in Washington, several southern governors said Monday.
It’s still about jobs, jobs, jobs. Until the employment market starts showing signs of improvement, it will cast a pall over any “green shoots” of growth poking up through the destruction left by the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. can't deal with the world's financial crisis alone, and nations need to act together to stimulate their economies.
Anyone considering a new career might want to know which industries are hiring. Here are the six areas that added the most jobs between Jan. 08 and Jan. 09.
The United Nations says the global financial crisis may have a silver lining: prompting more governments to boost their spending on environment-friendly initiatives such as renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Cyprus' finance minister projected Friday that the economy's growth would fall to 2.1 percent this year, but said the economy is better shape to weather the global financial crisis than many other countries.
South Korea said Tuesday it will invest 50 trillion won ($38.1 billion) over the next four years on environmental projects in a "Green New Deal" to spur slumping economic growth and create nearly a million jobs.
Vietnam's economic boom will continue to fade next year with growth slowing to 5 percent as the global downturn hits exports and foreign investment, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday.
The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council says China's and Peru's robust growth rates of 9.3 and 9.2 percent respectively will fall in 2009, but Peru's drop-off will be more pronounced.
Walgreen Co. says it hopes to cut $1 billion in annual costs by 2011 and will cut its capital expenses next fiscal year.
The global market for cancer drugs will grow twice as fast as that for all other pharmaceuticals as the developing world spends more on health care, a new report says.
The number of Hispanics in the United States rose by 1.4 million over a year's time to 45.5 million as of last July, continuing rapid growth that could increase their influence.
Brazil takes off WHEN, back in 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym.
Why Women's Rights Matter To Our FoodThat's right: women grow more than half of the world's food and the lion's share (as much as 80 percent) of the food in developing countries, reports the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Protecting Your Brand On The Online Yellow PagesWhy should you care about Online Yellow Pages when Google is most likely your primary source of traffic and ROI? The simple answer is because local search is on the rise, and with it so are opportunities for other advertisers to exploit your corporate name or brand, possibly to y …
Flaw in US Data Overstates Growth, Productivity - General * US * News * Story - CNBC.comA widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government's picture of the country's economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like trade, wages and job creation.
Fate Of Dems Majority Rests On Job GrowthWhen Barack Obama was elected president a year ago this week, the country was already mired in a long recession. But even his top economic advisers didn t know how bad things were going to get.
US Economy Starting to Grow AgainFor the first time in a year, the United States economy grew, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. But even if a recovery is technically in the offing, job seekers likely will not begin to feel the benefits for months to come.
Keeping prejudice out of our children Incidents of racial prejudice, both blatant and subtle, provide fodder for heated discussions in newspaper columns and TV talk shows. Where does it come from? Why does it persist, despite more than a half century of national effort to eradicate it?
Just How Big Is TweetMeme Anyway, And Why Does It Matter?There is a lot of chatter about TweetMeme's rather robust growth to over 18 million unique monthly visitors on Compete.com. That puts them ahead of well known sites like LinkedIn and gmail.com with 15 million and 9 million visitors, respectively, on the service).
Companies in U.S. Plan to Hire, Spend Into 2010, Survey Shows -For the first time in a year, U.S. companies are planning to boost payrolls and investments, indicating the nascent economic recovery will be sustained into 2010, a private survey showed.
Facebook and Twitter's Growth FlattensSomewhere in June, however, Twitter stopped growing, at least according to Compete.
Pensioner grows new skull Gordon Moore, 72, had worn a metal plate to protect his brain for more than 50 years after he was involved in a car crash. But when surgeons removed the titanium plate to treat an infection, they were astonished to find the had grown a new skull underneath.
Living LIFE Discussion featuring Steve PerryDr. Steve Perry, Principal featured on CNN Black in America 2 speaking about education and passion of teaching children.
The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United StatesThis Backgrounder argues that a serious commitment to environmentalism entails ending America's population growth by implementing a more restrictive immigration policy.
Moving Toward a Steady-State EconomyGrowth advocates, steady staters maintain, are operating under a number of wrongheaded assumptions, the first of which holds that the earth's ecosphere functions only to serve the human economy.
Nouriel Roubini: A phantom recovery? Most emerging economies may be returning to growth, but they are performing well below their potential
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Snorkel rice could feed millionsA new rice plant has been developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods.
The economic recession is a period of financial death. Logic and precedence suggest that there will be a rebirth. The only real question is when.
World Population projected to hit 7 Billion in 2011The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion by 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said.
Hold Steady Capping population growth and possible GDP will require a profound rethinking of our notions of progress and political clout. Historically, power and prestige – whether on the individual or societal levels – have been linked to size.
Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector, For more than 10 years so who is the problemFOR the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring.
Cuba suspends plans for Communist Party congress - Yahoo! NewsCuba is delaying it's plans for The Communist Party Congress that it has previously had every 5 years. See what stopped the meeting.
On A World without GrowthGrowth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. Poverty? Just grow the economy (increase the production of goods and services and spur consumer spending) and watch wealth trickle down.
EDITORIAL: The Will to Curb SprawlWater is the key to Florida's future economic growth, with planning and growth management needed not a carte blanche approach to develop and land use.
IBON Belies Gov't Claim: RP Growth Unlikely To Pick Up In Next 6 Months [Manila, Philippines--] Domestic growth is not in the offing and will not likely pick up significantly in the remainder of the year, according to the latest study made by research group IBON. Contrary to government claims that the domestic economy remains resilient in the face o …
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