If junior can't get a job, blame grandpa.
Battered retirement investments have led older workers to stay in, or re-enter, the workforce. And the situation has caused a shift in the average age of workers, with the percentage of young ... more

Vancouver residents Mark McCloud and Fred Schwarz represent the two -- what seem to be inevitable -- outcomes of late-career job loss.
McCloud, 63, hasn't been able to find another job, and is at the brink of a retirement he ... more

The recent drop in unemployment to 8.1% from 8.2% resulted from a shrinking labor force, suggesting that many discouraged workers gave up job searches. But analyses by two economists show growing Baby Boomer retirements were behind most of the decline ... more

Older workers are snaring an outsized share of job gains in the economic recovery as they put off retirement amid shrinking nest eggs, changes in Social Security benefits and improved health.
They're not necessarily limiting the pool of jobs for ... more

For dislocated workers searching for permanent work, turning to a temporary employment agency might seem counterintuitive.
Experts in the industry, though, say that in today's uncertain economy, partnering with a temporary employment agency should be among a job seeker's first ... more

At 11 o'clock on a recent Thursday morning, the parking lot of the sprawling Dayton Job Center at South Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, the largest "one-stop" job services facility in the USA, was jammed with cars. On the front lines ... more

Shelley Walta needed a job.
Michelle Julien needed a grandma.
Todd Pliss saw an opportunity.
Pliss paired the Simi Valley women through Rent-A-Grandma, a Los Angeles-based employment agency he founded in 2010. The agency places older women with families in ... more

Craig Guerdat used to be a technical writer but hasn't been able to land a full-time job in his field for 2 1/2 years. He suspects one reason he's been passed over again and again is that employers don't want ... more

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J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife's lunch, downs some eggs or cereal for breakfast, pores over online and newspaper job listings and hopes - ... more

Are some companies weeding out job applicants just because they are unemployed?
After news accounts about the practice and requests from concerned lawmakers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has jumped in, trying to figure out whether it's a widespread tactic ... more

Patrice Strachan was the vice president of operations with a manufacturer's representative group selling IT products when the shrinking economy took her job away in 2010.
But the Midlothian (VA) woman joined the Career Prospectors job-finder group in January last year, ... more

The job market is getting healthier, adding to evidence that the economy is improving.
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell recently to its lowest level since April 2008, the government said. The report suggested that layoffs are slowing further ... more