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Boosted by fiscal stimulus, construction spending rose 0.1% in June, the Commerce Department said. But spending for May was revised downward.

Global clean-tech venture investments rose 43% to $2 billion in the second quarter. Solar and biofuel startups garnered the biggest funding, while the IPO market for clean-tech was much hotter in China than the U.S.

The Great Recession had a disproportionately high impact on male unemployment. But now, the tentative recovery is driving job gains in areas like construction and financial services, helping male hiring regain lost ground -- some good news for Father's Day.

Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions Things are bleak for students at the University of Washington, where tuition ratcheted up 16% this year and is poised to go up another 14% in the fall -- raising the price tag by more...

The much-awaited third-quarter gross domestic product number to be released Thursday is expected to show a 3.5 percent increase. In the view of most economists, a positive number will mark the end of the recession which began in late 2008. But a positive print in the GDP is so widely expected that...

In my previous column, I argued that the business cycle has more pain in store, even as unemployment grows. My goal in this column is to make a realistic appraisal of the possibility that unemployment could continue to rise after the $787 billion Federal stimulus spending runs its course next...

As my colleague Douglas McIntyre described in "Unemployment problems are worse than meet the eye," unemployment in this recession is different -- what many are calling structural unemployment, meaning a decline in the jobs base, which is not going to bounce back quickly due to deep structural...

This is the first in a series of Innovative Ways to Stimulate the Economy suggested by DailyFinance contributors. As federal stimulus starts to take shape, various groups are loudly clamoring for their right to a piece of the pie. The financial services sector claims its right based on the need to...

In what seems like a headline from The Onion, Ohio has directed $1.5 million of its stimulus money toward the construction of an anti-suicide barrier on the All American Bridge in Akron Ohio. The bridge, which has seen three suicides in the past two years, will get the new fencing as part of a...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to appoint a state economic stimulus czar to ensure California gets its share of the $787 billion economic stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by President Obama. The state already has a recovery Web site to track how the federal stimulus...