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One hundred and fifty seven million people in the United States worked at some point during 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. About 63.5 percent of the non-institutional civilian population 16 years old and older worked at some time last year, down slightly from the 63.8 percent …

National retail sales experienced only a slight bump last week, the second full week of the holiday shopping season. Sales were up 1.1 percent year-over-year for the week that ended Saturday, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Index, which was released …

Retail sales were up 2.9 percent year-over-year for the week that ended Saturday, the first weekend after Black Friday kicked off the holiday shopping season. Compared with the previous week, sales were down 1.5 percent, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales …

Getting the two-day conference, a gathering of the public and private sector, is seen as a major coup for the Inland region and a sign it’s becoming a player in state politics. The summit’s goal is to solve regional problems, create economic growth, and promote better government, according to the …

U.S. employers added an impressive 321,000 jobs in November, according to data released Friday by U.S. Department of Labor. Despite that increase – the largest monthly job hike in nearly three years – remained at 5.8 percent, the lowest it’s been in six year, the department’s monthly report on U.S. …

November was a solid month for U.S. retail sales. Chain-store sales were up 4.9 percent last month compared with November 2013, according to data released Thursday by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Clothing showed an especially strong increase compared with October, but all sectors were strong last month, said …