Amanda Mcgrory Dixon

Forty percent of employees are living paycheck to paycheck, marking a decrease from 42 percent in 2011 and 46 percent in 2008 when the recession first hit, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

Confidence among finance and accounting workers fell 5.2 points to 52.6 during the second quarter of 2012 following its highest level in four years, according to the Mergis Group Finance and Accounting Employee Confidence Index by the Mergis Group.

Fifty-nine percent of entrepreneurs say they've added full-time staff as opposed to 42 percent of entrepreneurs who did so two years ago, according to the Global Entrepreneur Indicator from the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

As concerns regarding the global economy continue, U.S. workers salaries are only marginally increasing; however, there's the chance for workers to balance low base pay increases through performance-based awards, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt.

After multiple years of losses, industrial employment in Pennsylvania increased 0.5 with 3,776 more industrial jobs between June 2011 and June 2012, according to the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.

Although men have experienced quicker job growth than women during the recovery, women's job growth moved along faster in the third year, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Womens Policy Research of employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

June's national health spending rate fell slightly from May, but growth is 3.9 percent above the same time last year.

Sixty-five percent of workers say they are interviewing for positions with salary levels that are returning to prerecession levels while 26 percent of workers say salary levels are still much lower than before the recession, and 9 percent of workers say salary levels are actually higher from the start of...