WASHINGTON (AP) — Just how healthy is the U.S. job market? Despite steady hiring and falling unemployment, the question has provoked sharp debate and considerable uncertainty on the eve of the September jobs report. Will millions without jobs who aren't looking for one eventually start [...]

Here’s the question: Which brainy television game show came under fire recently for being inadvertently sexist? And the answer is … “Jeopardy!” During the game show on Monday night, host Alex Trebek revealed the category “What Women Want.” The generalization already had the program treading [...]

Here’s the question: Which brainy television game show came under fire recently for being inadvertently sexist? And the answer is … “Jeopardy!” During the game show on Monday night, host Alex Trebek revealed the category “What Women Want.” The generalization already had the program treading [...]

Washington (AFP) - Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's gaffe over women, pay raises and karma comes as the US tech industry is facing up to questions over diversity and gender equality. Nadella, named CEO at the tech giant in April, swiftly backtracked from his comments [...]

... Dan Wolf, a Democratic state senator from Harwich and the founder of the regional airline Cape Air, considers sick time a pro-business measure. Cape Air, which started with a handful of employees and now has more than 1,200, has always offered the benefit. He [...]

Conventional wisdom holds that 2014 will be a bad year for Democrats nationally. Among Democratic voters, there has been considerably more enthusiasm for would-be candidates in 2016 than actual candidates in the fast-approaching November midterms. But a large survey of 4,507 Americans from the nonpartisan [...]