High jobless rate raises concerns even as economy heads into recovery

Union Carbide may have abandoned their plant in 1984, but the toxic waste that they had been throwing into a breached solar evaporation pond has stayed and spread each monsoon season into surrounding neighbourhoods

Darcia North Wind felt the stares whenever she'd show up at a construction site or the scene of a fire. She passed all the tests to be a firefighter and was able to handle an electric jackhammer as well as her male

Be sure you know how to spot the most common, along with the most uncommon, charges on your credit card, along with a few tips on what to do about them, by reading the below.

STILWELL, Okla. - Because of Cherokee Nation Industries' construction division being more than $1 million in the red four months into its fiscal year, the company has been forced to lay off employees

Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX and the News Corporation empire, just said Glenn Beck "was right" when he called President Obama "racist." This is a rare moment of candor from Murdoch, one of the most powerful media barons in the world.

The Women's Microfinance Initiative (WMI) started as a casual discussion between two women in Bethesda, Maryland. Robyn Nietert and Betsy Gordon wanted to help people in an impoverished community, and microfinance seemed a more sustainable and empowering

SANTA ANA, N.M. - For AMERIND Risk Management Corp., "family-friendly" is a natural extension of the company's basic business mission. The Pueblo of Santa Ana, N.M.-based AMERIND was established by more than 165 Native American housing authorities in...

Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting

Just in case you thought it was okay to buy non-organic cotton, here's a wakeup call: the workers sowing, picking, weeding, hoeing, cross-pollinating and carrying the heavy bundles of cotton are often... children. And I'm not talking about kids working th