Employee Participation

North Carolina legislators agreed Wednesday to cut payments to future jobless workers and raise business taxes to hasten repayment of $2.5 billion owed to the federal government because the state couldn't keep up with benefit requests during the recession.

American Airlines and US Airways agreed Thursday to merge in an $11 billion deal that would create the world's biggest airline.

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.