Highway Workers Deal With 'Dangerous Environment'

Highway workers say they can get used to the whoosh of trucks and cars going down the road but they avoid getting too comfortable on the job, one of the most dangerous around. ...more

October 25, 2008

Real Plumbers, Real Numbers

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions - divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions - he was able to reinvent the Republican brand. The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of the "silent majority," the regular guys - white guys, it went without saying - who didn't like the social changes taking place. ...more

October 21, 2008

Highway Worker's Death Spotlights Dangers

Highway workers can get used to the whoosh of trucks and cars going down the road but generally avoid getting too comfortable on the job, one of the most dangerous around. ...more

October 20, 2008

Oilfield Workers' Death Rate Soars

Less than two months into the job in the oilfields of West Texas, Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable as he and co-workers struggled to get a drilling rig up and running. ...more

September 11, 2008

Workers Are In Sobering Situation, Labor Scorecard Finds

This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they've been in years, according to a scorecard released today by Rutgers University. ...more

September 1, 2008

How Much!? U.S. Consumer Prices Just Keep Rising

GOING UP

JUNE 2005

JUNE 2008

Gallon of regular ...more

August 4, 2008

Region's Metro Areas Rank High In U.S. Jobs-Lost Tally

The Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice market recorded the fourth highest percentage drop in total employment nationwide for the past year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics released this week. ...more

July 10, 2008

Help Wanted: Slumping Employment Is Best Indicator This Is Recession

The U.S. economy has been leaking jobs for six straight months, seven if government hiring is excluded. ...more

July 10, 2008

Economic Fears Trickle Down To Those Dependent On Tips

At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati's west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift. ...more

June 24, 2008