Unemployment

Harry Reid offers the nation a mephitic Senate health-care bill that retains the worst features of Nancy Pelosi’s creation and adds fresh horrors of its own: It will force Americans to finance abortions and jack up some Americans’ Medicare taxes by 34...

State government budget problems have been a well-publicized element of the nation’s ongoing economic crisis. Less remarked upon has been a lower-profile meltdown: the nation’s soon-to-be ugly local government fiscal mess. And now it’s time to tune in.

A private forecast of economic activity over the next six months edged up less than expected in October, signaling slow, bumpy growth next year. The Conference Board said Thursday that its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3 percent last month.

Recovery in developed economies will accelerate next year due to "substantial improvements" in financial markets and fast-growing Asian countries, but is likely to remain fragile, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday...

California’s unemployment rate climbed to 12.5 percent in October. That’s up slightly from the month before, and the highest it’s been since World War II.

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U.S. In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

The jobless rate in October rose to 8.3-percent, up from 8.2-percent in September. In the Houston area, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.5-percent. Veronica Downey is a labor market analyst for the Texas Workforce Commission.