WASHINGTON — President Obama rolled out a new jobs plan Thursday designed to quickly provide $447 billion through a mix of tax cuts, construction projects and unemployment relief -- an ambitious move ...

On a Friday morning in February 2009, the Labor Department issued its standard monthly readout on the state of the U.S. labor market. It was the first of 96 jobs reports to be issued during the Obama ...

In a lengthy New York Times magazine story, Peter Baker explains how President Obama's economic team plans to tackle 9.4 percent unemployment and a $1.3 trillion federal budget deficit, as the economy ...

President Obama outlined a series of initiatives Tuesday aimed at spurring job growth through aid for small businesses, despite mounting pressures to reduce a record federal budget deficit. Judy ...

We’ve seen this image before: Barack Obama putting the final touches on an important economic speech calling for stimulus spending, job creation, infrastructure investment, assistance to those hit by ...

“So I guess the answer to the question is, not all of these jobs are going to come back,” Obama said. “And it probably wouldn’t be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, ...

Obama in remarks at the Rose Garden said support for the package should come from both parties because preventing layoffs of police officers, firefighters and teachers “should not be a partisan issue.

US President Barack Obama addresses the 2011 American Legion National Convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center August 30, 2011. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL ...

President Obama has made much of his commitment to green energy as he launches his re-election bid, but the nascent industry has produced far fewer jobs than the president promised, despite massive, ...

As President Obama continued his broadsides against Congress, once more demanding action on his jobs bill, the partisan elbows got sharper in the Senate on Tuesday with extra political maneuvering by ...