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Can't make your mortgage? Get an emergency loan
March 9, 2010Erin and Robert Smith had no problem handling the $2,000 monthly payment on their home ... until they lost their jobs.
Best Companies for job growth
March 9, 2010Best Companies like the Scooter Store and DreamWorks notched some impressive job growth last year and are showing no signs of slowing down.
Jobless rate holds steady
March 9, 2010The U.S. economy shed 36,000 jobs and the unemployment rate was unchanged in February, according to a government report released Friday.
Jobs: Short-term hope, long-term despair
March 9, 2010Friday's jobs report showed some glimmers of a recovery but If you're among the 8.8 million Americans still unemployed after nearly four months, you may have been left scratching your head.
Economic snow job
March 9, 2010The only professionals with a worse reputation than meterologists for predicting the future are economists.
CBO: $10 trillion jump in debt under Obama budget
March 9, 2010If President Obama's 2011 budget were put into effect as proposed, the U.S. federal government would add an estimated $9.8 trillion to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, according to a preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.
The Fannie-Freddie waiting game
March 9, 2010Putting Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's houses in order will have to wait.
How $1 trillion hides in plain sight
March 9, 2010The government does without roughly a trillion dollars a year because of a slew of tax breaks -- everything from the mortgage-interest deduction, to education and child credits, to low rates on investments.
Consumer credit rises for first time in a year
March 9, 2010Consumer borrowing increased in January for the first time in a year, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. The news blew past economist expectations which predicted a decline for the 12th straight month.
11 airports get new body scanners
March 9, 2010The Department of Homeland Security on Friday named the first 11 airports to receive full-body scanners paid for with stimulus funds, with most of them going to California and the Midwest.
