Employee Participation

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell by 27,000 last week, an indication that hiring could improve.

Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be...

President Barack Obama is pushing for a higher minimum wage because he says Americans who work full time should not be in poverty.

Health care workers report feeling more confident, especially when it comes to the economys strength and job availability.

The American public will get a competing mix of rhetoric and imagery in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, a speech that offers a heavy dose on the economy even as it plays out against a visual backdrop dominated by the current national debate over guns.

The Defense Department is not extending some housing benefits to same-sex partners of service members even though it legally could because the issue requires more review and military leaders expressed concerns, senior Pentagon officials said Monday.