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Despite lulls in foreclosure activity last year, properties hit with foreclosure in Connecticut increased more than 10 percent in 2010 compared with the previous year, according to a recent report.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the unemployment rate will probably fall slowly even with a pickup in U.S. growth this year, signaling no change in the central bank’s monetary stimulus.

In another good-news bad-news dispatch from the job market, the national employment rate fell sharply last month, yet job creation was weaker than expected.

There are promising signs springing up in Georgia’s economy. State sales tax revenues are a leading indicator of a rebound and ours are going up every month, including an increase of more than 10 percent in December.

Gov Chris Christie signed bipartisan legislation designed to revise the state's Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant program. Administered by the state Economic Development Authority, the program intends to help preserve jobs,

In Massachusetts economists are painting a brighter picture for 2011, anticipating solid job growth in the last six months of this year and predicting an economic recovery that actually feels like one.

Although the unemployment rate dropped dramatically to 9.4% in December 2010, the government reported, employers added only 103,000 jobs, below many analysts' expectations. The report on average weekly work hours was also disappointing.

Although the unemployment rate dropped dramatically to 9.4% in December 2010, the government reported, employers added only 103,000 jobs, below many analysts' expectations. The report on average weekly work hours was also disappointing.

Although the unemployment rate dropped dramatically to 9.4% in December 2010, the government reported, employers added only 103,000 jobs, below many analysts' expectations. The report on average weekly work hours was also disappointing.