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U.S. stocks plunged Friday, threatening to erase the week's gains, as rising fears about fallout from Europe's debt crisis overshadowed President Barack Obama's plan to revive the U.S. job market.

Nonprofit organizations have increased hiring by 14 percent in August of 2011 compared to August of 2010, according to a survey by Idealist.org, a nonprofit job search engine.

According to a new Aflac survey, 77 percent of employed adults say they would leave their current positions for entrepreneurship opportunities.

Chief financial officers are anticipating more hiring during the fourth quarter of 2011, with 12 percent saying they plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees, according to the Robert Half Financial Hiring.

Key elements of the $447 billion jobs package that President Barack Obama unveiled Thursday to a joint session of Congress.

Fifty-seven percent of employers test all job candidates for drugs, with only 29 percent forgoing drug tests on any job candidates, according to a poll released by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association.

Wasting no time, President Barack Obama is pitching to the public his $447 billion jobs program of tax cuts and new spending after bluntly telling Congress to "stop the political circus" and fix the economy.

When tragedy strikes, life insurance responds, helping survivors carry on with their lives financially. As valuable as a death benefit check is, many survivors face other hurdles as they learn to cope with their loss.