economy

We're pretty lucky to live in a state that has bucked national unemployment trends for a long time, and according to a recent report, it continues to look positive. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reports employment rose by around 3...

While the nation's economy was struggling to rebound in recent years, Texas was always ahead of the national average with lower unemployment numbers. Those numbers are changing as the state unemployment rate is now at 5%, which is slightly higher than the national average of 4...

It's always great when you can report positive news for your hometown, especially when it's something that ranks on a national level. On that note, we're happy to report great economic news for the Victoria area. In a story published in The Victoria Advocate, Victoria was in the top 3% of fastest-growing metro areas in 2014...

When it comes to the economy in the United States, Texas ranks very high, according to a recent report by Business Insider.

The U.S. economy, which has been slogging through a long, slow, tepid recovery for years following the Great Recession of 2007-2009, showed several positive signs this week, including higher-than-expected jobs numbers and GDP growth.

Job growth in May beat economists' expectations, coming in at 175,000 new positions added, which aligns closely with the yearly average. The unemployment rate rose ever so slightly, from 7.5 percent to 7.6 percent, a result of more people entering the work force, according to the Labor Department.

Forget about the housing market, the unemployment rate and the price of gas, the lingering effects of the recent global recession has caused the legalized brothel business in Nevada to go limp. According to a New York Daily News report, the Nevada Brothel Association blames the bad economy for slicing the industry in half since 1985...

The economy added 165,000 jobs in April, bringing the overall unemployment rate down a tick to 7.5 percent. The monthly report from the Labor Department also included upward revisions to the last two reports, helping to ease fears of a slowdown.

After last week's disappointing March jobs report, the Department of Labor released some rather encouraging news on Thursday.

There is one business that continues to flourish no matter how unstable the American economy seems to become: prostitution. And while lawmakers are currently struggling to figure out ways to keep the country from tipping right over the fiscal cliff, there are some that believe the solution lies in legalizing and taxing the sex trade.

If you occasionally fall victim to the holiday blues, you'd better learn to shake it off. A recent study finds that the sadder a person is, the more likely he is to head down the road to bankruptcy.

The American family is becoming a cash-only business. The latest statistics indicates that while there has been a substantial increase in the amount of available consumer credit, people are simply not utilizing the convenience of credit cards to make their purchases.