America's Best Careers 2010
As these last two years of payroll slashing comes to an end, traumatized job seekers and anxious students wonder where on earth they'll find work—and if it will stick. U.S.News's 50 best careers should offer growth, good pay, varied educational requirements—because not everyone can go back to school for six years—and the hope of sustained opportunity.
Jobless Overwhelm Retraining Programs
The crowds of unemployed people trying to get retraining have so swamped long-underfunded community colleges and other job skills programs that many communities now have waiting lists of six months or more.
What a 9.7 Percent Unemployment Rate Means
Despite economists' expectations that the unemployment rate would climb well into the economic recovery, the percentage of unemployed, job-seeking Americans fell 0.3 percentage point in January to 9.7 percent, its lowest point since August.
America's Best Places to Find a Job 2009
Overall, the quality that separates these cities from their peers is not necessarily steep job growth in recent years but a steadiness during the recession that has prevented the sharp employment declines and steep unemployment rates posing such a challenge to dedicated job seekers nationwide.
