job creation

Senate Democrats' draft plan for job creation, circulated Tuesday, contains a couple of employment measures and a lot of leftover business.

President Obama on Monday will reveal a $3.8 trillion budget for 2011 that tries to balance two competing goals: continued government spending to foster job creation and the fragile economic recovery, while also controlling the nation's deficit.

When President Obama called last month for a new tax break to spur job creation, critics blasted him for offering no specifics.

On Friday, Obama plans to fill in the details: He wants to give businesses a $5,000 tax credit for each net new employee they hire this year.

The House plans to vote Wednesday on measures that would extend the safety net for the unemployed and spur job creation.

President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he wants Congress to redirect $200 billion of Wall Street bailout funds toward job creation measures, White House officials told CNN.

A lot of the money that was slated for TARP now is probably going to go to funding job creation. Stacey Vanek-Smith talks with Senator Judd Gregg from New Hampshire, who explains why the money would be better used paying off the national debt.

A growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers and liberal economists are pushing hard for a tax on stock trades to pay for job creation.

CerMet Lab thinks it has a magic answer for better fuel efficiency in cars and better job creation and Michigan.

History tells us employment tends to lag in the economic cycle. Jobs return once demand for products and services goes up.

But commentator and economist Mark Thoma says factors like technology are throwing a wrench into the jobs equation.