As much as the market and Corporate America may like what they heard in the president’s speech Tuesday night, history shows Obama’s reelection in 2012 remains pinned to boosting Americans’ income growth to at least 3%. Problem …
Upon taking office in 2009, Obama inherited two costly wars and an economy that had violently imploded just months before. What’s changed since then? Quite a bit — some for the better, some not. Here’s a midterm progress repor…
If we measure competitiveness by profits and cash balances, domestic companies have never been stronger. Unfortunately, that competitiveness has come out of the hides of the country’s workers — nearly 15 million of whom are ou…
The economy and job creation will be the focus of Obama’s speech — as they should be. But behind the pessimistic hand-wringing and political posturing is a surprising rebound, and jobs are steadily being added.
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Tech layoffs came to just under 47,000 last year, according to employment-services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Better still, during the next 10 years, the sector is forecast to have one of the fastest paces of job creati…