american workers

    By Bruce Watson

    | 8:00AM 9/06/2010
    Labor Day signals the end of summer and the start of the school year, but it's also is a moment to consider America's workers and the long -- and continuing -- struggle for employee rights. Our photo gallery provides a look at images of workers, past and present.

    By Peter Cohan

    | 9:00AM 8/15/2010
    Until companies start hiring American workers, banks make affordable credit available for deserving consumers and institutional investors start providing more capital for start-ups, the U.S. economy will limp along -- or maybe worse.

    By Ira Teinowitz

    | 8:00AM 5/05/2010
    Could Americans be in danger of growing too old, so old in fact that they outrun their retirement savings? That is the conclusion of a new Government Accountability Office study, which suggests that Americans are increasingly worried about the prospect it could happen to them. "Today, couples...

    By Josh Smith

    | 12:30PM 8/12/2009
    Times are tough. but when Savannah Stern, the star of Naughty Office 12, Nylons 4 and at least 350 more adult movies, has to trade in her Mercedes for her parents' old Trailblazer you know the porn industry has experienced a little shrinkage.The Los Angeles Times followed Savannah around to her...