Freelancers and Temps See Mixed Signals of a Recovery

The sector specializing in short-term and freelance jobs has taken on a split personality of sorts. Demand for contractors is ticking upward, but pay rates are going the other way.
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Obama Pushes His New Stimulus Plan

Speaking in Cleveland, President Obama laid out the details of his plan to boost the economic recovery: $50 billion for infrastructure spending; a $100 billion R&D tax credit; and $200 billion to induce U.S. companies to make c…

Could Congress Eliminate the Federal Budget Deficit?

The annual U.S. budget deficit is well over a trillion dollars, and in the long term, that’s unsustainable. But a closer look at the sources of most of that gap shows that balancing the budget wouldn’t be nearly as hard as it m…