Yes, you can get a good job without college

Report: Steve Jobs 'worked closely' on new iPhone design

City workers in Japan to be fired for having tattoos?

Flat jobless claims raise worries about job market

Chicago mayor announces $200M O'Hare cargo center

The city of Chicago has reached an agreement to begin construction of a $200 million cargo center at O'Hare International Airport.

2012 college grads enter improving job market

The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.

American plans to cut another 1,200 jobs

American Airlines wants to eliminate 1,200 nonunion jobs as it cuts costs while under bankruptcy protection.

Investors focused on jobs data, PPI report

States where green jobs are going gangbusters

Stocks drop to one-month low after jobs report

Stocks set to slump after dour jobs data

Report: Sony to ax 10,000 jobs, expects $2.7B loss

Jobs report leaves Obama, Romney campaigns wary

The nation's steady-but-modest job growth presents political challenges for both of November's all-but-certain presidential rivals.

Economy adds 120,000 jobs, unemployment dips

Government job losses dragging down growth

More workers say they expect a raise

Yahoo slashing 14 percent of its workforce

Private employers boosted hiring in March

Lots of restaurant jobs; not lots of pay

Australia to lure more US construction workers

Australia is hoping to lure more American plumbers, electricians and construction workers to be employed on Outback projects in the burgeoning mining and gas industries by changing how their skills are assessed.

After grad job slump, big hiring is back at colleges

Consumer confidence highest in a year

Egypt bans porn websites

Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday.

Senator: Employers shouldn't seek site passwords

A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Grand Island, N.Y. – The U.S. Border Patrol’s Wellesley Island Station graduated its second Citizens Academy class last night. The Citizens Academy, which held its first session on April 18, met every Wednesday night for a six-week period.

Most voters continue to believe tax cuts are good for the economy and that more government spending has a negative impact. Fifty-three percent (53%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say tax cuts help the economy

Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are most concerned with getting a job, according to data released this spring. They also are focused on finding mental and physical health care. Indeed, veterans can find themselves dealing with disabilities on their own, fueling the e …

Teenagers in Washington, D.C., face tough odds getting a job.

a list of unusual jobs and their often surprisingly high salaries.

Right-Side Up in an Upside-Down Land

The upside down land commonly called America.  The following, currently making the rounds on the internet, does indeed give us pause.  Makes one wonder how such a great nation got so far off-track.   Interesting times we live in.  See if you are right-side up  …

As The Hill reports, Mitt Romney is pledging to bring the unemployment rate below six percent by the end of his first term -- and of course in so pledging is once more sinking back to his default position of smearing President Obama: "I can tell you that over a period of four  …

Contrary to Obama’s implication, if a company emphasizes profits too much, it will go out of business. That is why profits act as an incentive to provide the country with what people want at reasonable prices.Do we need to remind the president that the alternative — …

Romney is also holding Obama to a higher standard. When the most recent set of jobs numbers came out, the presumptive GOP nominee chastised the president, saying that anything over 4 percent unemployment was not a cause for celebration.

One reason the unemployment rate may have remained persistently high: The sharp cuts in state and local government spending in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and the layoffs those cuts wrought.

BOYCOTT 'EM!!!! (If you have time to waste)

I saw a recent article suggesting the boycott of HP as a reaction to their decision to open a plant in China. While I'm a firm believer in keeping jobs in the US...(my very livlihood is tied to it, in fact)...I've always been miffed by this sudden cry of "BOYCOTT!!!!!" every time …

From extra shifts at auto and steel plants in Ohio to office buildings rising in Northern Virginia, the geography of the U.S. economic rebound is providing an edge to President Barack Obama’s re-election. The unemployment rates in a majority of the 2012 battleground …

"We are increasingly concerned at the state-sponsored babysitting nature of some college programmes, rather than the specifically targeted vocational training for near-guaranteed employment we believe taxpayers' money should be being spent on."

Tax credits in President Obama's healthcare law aren't big enough to prompt small businesses to start offering healthcare benefits, the Government Accountability Office said Monday. Fewer businesses than expected have been taking the tax credit.   

President Obama’s campaign and the Democratically-aligned SuperPAC Priorities USA have begun airing separate ads featuring former employees who were laid off thanks to Bain Capital, the private equity firm once helmed by Mitt Romney. But rather than pushing back against t …

Romney says he was in the “job creation” business. He wasn’t. He was in the wealth creation business, and when that meant firing people, that’s what he did — , and he profited handsomely from it. On the other hand, many of the companies that Romne …

The fuss over the Obama campaign’s attacks on Romney’s record at Bain Capital continued over the weekend and through Monday. Appearing on the Rachel Maddow show, Cory Booker tried to clarify his remarks made on Meet the Press, remarks he made in reaction to an Obama …

Governor Palin and Hannity discuss the benefits of private equity and the reaction to Booker's statement by the Obama Campaign. Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital has come into focus, along with the potential for the free market with his experience.Read more:

Cheesehead Rebellion: More shenanigans surface from Scott Walker & Co. as recall election looms large

Golly!  Must be election time.  It's that recall thing just two weeks away.  We're getting more news of malfeasance by the gov and his supporters.  Anything to it?  See for yourself... Special Interests Pig Out On The Taxpayers’ Tab: Governor, …

During a press conference at the NATO Summit in Chicago, President Obama was asked about the hot political story of the day, Newark Mayor Cory Booker‘s criticism (and walkback) of the Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney‘s record at Bain Capital. The Presiden …

Charles Babington asks that question in the first paragraph of his he said/she said piece Saturday on whether Republicans are out to sabotage the economy in hopes of hurting Obama. The question keeps being asked against the clear evidence that this is precisely what's going on  …

The failure of Obama's trillion dollar big government gamble to revive the economy is no laughing matter, though, especially to the 23 million or so Americans (including my wife) who are part of the long-term unemployed. In a cruel fit of irony, these are the same people hel …

During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday morning, CNBC’s Mad Money host and Wall Street expert Jim Cramer took on Mitt Romney’s claim of being a job creator.

Speaking at a California economic conference this month, former-President Bill Clinton proposed taking “the lid of the H-1B Visas”—to finally remove the decades-old quota system entirely. “It’s easier to start a business here,” he said. &ldqu …