<div id="subtitle">Biggest Job Loss in 5 Years Sets Off Recession Alarms; Nearly Quarter-Million Gone in 3 Months</div><div><p>It's no longer a question of recession or not. Now it's how deep and how long. Workers' pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jittery ...
<div id="subtitle">More Americans on food stamps as economy crumbles</div><div><p>If you lost your job in the first three months of this year, it may be small consolation that you're in good company. More than two million of your fellow Americans found themselves in ...
<div id="subtitle">Wholesale prices fall unexpectedly last month, driven by lower food and energy costs</div><div><p>Wholesale prices dropped sharply last month as the cost of food, gasoline and home heating oil plummeted, fresh evidence that inflation appears to pose little immediate threat to the ...
<div id="subtitle">Dismal retail sales reports undercut optimism about economy</div><div><p>Consumers looking for some positive indicators about the nation's battered economy won't find it in the report on March's retail sales. After rising in January and February, U.S. retail sales dropped last month.< ...
<div id="subtitle">Unemployment rate jumps to 7.2 percent</div><div><p>More Americans lost their jobs in December, as the U.S. Labor Department reports the nation's unemployment rate jumped to 7.2 percent, a 16-year high.</p><p>The economy shed 524,000 jobs ...
<div id="subtitle">Price decreases are rare bright spot in bad economy</div><div><p>The one bright spot for consumers in an otherwise dreadful economic downturn is a dramatic drop in prices. That's underlined in the government's Consumer Price Index for December, which showed prices declined 0.7 ...
<div id="subtitle">Cash hoarding will help economy in long term, expert says</div><div><p>For the sixth month in a row, American consumers spent less and socked more of their money away in bank accounts.</p><p>The U.S. Commerce Department reports consumer spending fell ...
<div id="subtitle">Foreclosures and sinking home prices may signal a new era for buyers</div><div><p>Home prices have plunged in 2008, as air continues to escape from the housing bubble. Foreclosures in many cities have created a buyer's market, dropping prices 30 percent or more ...
<div id="subtitle">Unemployment rate shoots to 6.7 percent</div><div><p>A deepening recession has battered the job market, as the U.S. Labor Department reports unemployment rose to 6.7 percent last month. Employers cut payrolls by 533,000 jobs during the month.</p><p> ...
<div id="subtitle">Nine months straight of job losses</div><div><p>Payrolls fell in September by the largest amount in five years. The U.S. Labor Department reports the nation's unemployment rate was 6.1 percent, up nearly one and a half points over September 2007.</p>< ...
