New Jersey cabinet maker Kelly Conklin is seeing business return, and he's passing the good fortune on to his employees.

Temporary holiday hires might be padding December’s big jobs numbers.

Despite record-low mortgage rates, Americans are yet to wade back into home-ownership.

Today, ADP reported the biggest jump in new hires it has ever seen: 325,000 new jobs in December. Could that be a sign the economy is coming out of its stupor?

School-subsidized lunch programs report staggering numbers of students in need of help.

Some early concerns about tight European credit markets making it expensive for European banks to raise capital dragged the markets down in the early hours. That was countered a bit by some more trickles of good news about the U.S. economy.

The number of bank failures in 2011 fell from the previous year, but banks are far from being out of the woods just yet.

According to the Institute for Supply Management, in December a key indicator of manufacturing health was at a six-month high.

The Dow’s best- and worst-performing stocks of 2011.

To retire right these days, pension expert Olivia Mitchell encourages clients to look at the bigger picture.