Campaign 2012: 5 key factors to watch
ANALYSIS - Here are the five things you really should be watching...
New Obama ad hits Romney on jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama opened a new advertising assault on challenger Mitt Romney's record as a businessman -- his primary strength with an American electorate still deeply worried about the economy...
Online hiring platform helps teachers get jobs
Brian Martinez has created an online platform that gives schools and teachers something they cannot find anywhere else...
5/07/2012 - theGrio and CNBC Market Update
Last week, investors received quite a few economic reports. The manufacturing sector expanded in April, while growth slowed in the services sector. But it was all about jobs...
Black women benefiting during weak jobs market
theGRIO REPORT - Since December, black women have knocked more than 3 percentage points off of their unemployment rate, going down from 13.9 percent to 10.8 percent. That drop is the largest for any demographic group...
Romney: Economy should be creating 500,000 jobs a month
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seeking an election-year advantage on the economy by setting 4 percent as a target for the nation's unemployment rate...
Decline in government jobs hurts black Americans
theGRIO REPORT - Blacks have been disproportionately affected; about 20 percent of black workers are in government jobs at the state or local level.
Black unemployment dips, as US rate hits 8.1 percent
MSNBC - The U.S. economy generated fewer jobs than expected in April, but the unemployment rate dipped slightly and data from prior months was revised upward...
Black unemployment dips, as US rate hits 8.1 percent
theGRIO REPORT - Black unemployment dropped a full point to 13 percent, one of the most positive signs in a jobs report released Friday that otherwise showed limited progress for the American economy...
4/30/2012 - theGrio and CNBC Market Update
VIDEO - Where are the jobs? We'll find out with the April employment report...
