AP - If you were looking for a job as a teacher last month, you were in luck. Same goes for health workers, retail clerks and building contractors. All told, the economy added 180,000 new jobs, dropping unemployment to a 4.4 percent rate that matched a five-year low.

State tax revenues are slowing this year and in some cases falling below projections, a result of the housing market slowdown that has curbed spending.

Reuters - Occidental Petroleum Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Ray Irani took in more than $400 million in compensation in 2006, according to a company filing, one of the biggest single-year payouts in U.S. corporate history.

AP - If you were looking for a job as a teacher last month, you were in luck. Same goes for health workers, retail clerks and building contractors. All told, the economy added 180,000 new jobs, dropping unemployment to a 4.4 percent rate that matched a five-year low.

While new disclosure rules have resulted in far more information, analysts say they still do not necessarily offer greater insight into executive compensation.

In the world of executive compensation, fact often outstrips fiction, and even farce.

Cleanliness, as the saying goes, is next to godliness. But combine these two virtues into a single product and some consumers may take offense.

To smooth a transition, make it easier for employees to interact on three floors.

The potential conflict in the Tribune sale stems from a practice known as ?staple financing.?

A new generation of genetically engineered crops brings with it a new wave of concerns about the safety of the global food and feed supply.

Shareholders are paying for performance, almost any kind of performance.

If a ?practical quantum computer? had been built and demonstrated, it would be a wonderful thing.

The richest paydays are supposed to be reserved for Wall Street titans, oil barons and banking moguls. So what is a handbag maker doing atop the list?

Some of the major consulting firms are debating whether to separate or spin off their compensation consulting businesses to avoid perceptions that they conflict with other services that the firms provide.

The original promise of subprime mortgages dissipates.

What do the United States? trade deals mean for global talks?

In the case of Starbucks: a corporate do-gooder vs. unhappy workers vs. concerned consumers.

A handful of new books aim to help you develop some negotiation skills.

How coping with adversity can lead to happiness.

Game developers are learning to translate their skills to a much smaller screen.

How makers of a decades-old appliance still find new ways to catch consumer interest.

?You can achieve great things only if you understand how the environment you are in operates,? said Dr. Paula Johnson.

Corporate profit growth is decelerating at a significant pace. And so, too, are earnings expectations for the coming year.

Retail sales of ring tones are expected to drop this year by $50 million, to $550 million.

Hip-hop disc jockey Funkmaster Flex introduced a new Ford Expedition -- the Funkmaster Flex Edition -- at the New York auto show last week.

When G.E. announces first-quarter results on Friday, they could show that the world goes pretty well, even if the American economy could be going better.

Benjamin Barber argues that consumer culture hurts America?s democracy.

For the better part of a century, Columbia Records has been a force in music.

Dan Schneider, a former child star, has become the master of a television genre by not caring what parents think.

The stock market had a short but splendid week, with gains that brought the three major indexes close to the peaks they had reached before the sharp global sell-off that started on Feb. 27.

Reuters - Real estate mogul Sam Zell will control a minority of Tribune Co.'s board if shareholders approve his bid for the company, but would have the power to veto major transactions, according to a regulatory filing.