Productivity–the amount that the average worker produces in an hour–was thought to have grown significantly during the economic slowdown while unemployment hovered around 5.9 percent. A new Commerce Department release questions the higher productivity numbers, suggesting that the growth has been minimal, as it was previous to the dot-com boom of the late '90s. Here a worker has brought his work with him while others relax at a neighborhood bar in Chicago in July.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
