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President Barack Obama made clear Wednesday that he won't cave again to Republican demands to extend tax cuts for the wealthy.

Not even being arrested on federal fraud charges and placed under strict house arrest could keep Amiee Arora from cooking up new schemes.

Investigation into collapse of MF Global seems unlikely to drag down Corzine

Republicans claim about "uncertainty" under Obama, but it's the GOP candidates who are failing to provide answers

O'Malley hails September jobs numbers

A Baltimore woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with a scheme to steal more than $400,000 in Maryland unemployment benefits, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office said.

Many Maryland employers will see their per-worker tax for unemployment insurance drop by more than half next year, a sharp improvement after three years of maximum rates forced by recessionary layoffs.

Congress must act to prevent veterans cuts required by sequestration

Audit of Maryland's Division of Unemployment Insurance finds the deceased, prisoners and state workers improperly collecting benefits

Unemployment benefits law, better tracking of abusers will help women in violent relationships

Looming federal budget cuts the country faces in January could strike a body blow to Maryland's economy, gouging $2.5 billion in personal income out of residents' pockets and crimping social programs in health and human services, education, and workforce development, according to a recent state report and interviews with regional economists.

Laurel's central location between four major jurisdictions makes it an ideal place for the state's new regional workforce center, where people can go to find job training, employment connections and host of other services.

After a 5 percent jump in Baltimore's poverty rate between 2009 and 2010, the rate held steady in 2011, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.

The video in which Mitt Romney dismisses nearly half the nation's population as lazy and dependent on government underscores questions about whether his policies would benefit the whole nation or just the rich.

The president's policies show he cares about people who are still struggling

Maryland's new labor secretary will be Leonard Howie, an official at the state Department of Human Resources, the state said Monday.

President Obama's supporters like to trumpet the killing of bin Laden, but all he did was give the order any of us would have given.

The Sparrows Point steel mill is so intertwined with parts of eastern Baltimore County that everyone in the area seems to be affected — or knows someone who is.

Maryland's black communities overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama's historic rise to the presidency four years ago, but this time around, his support for same-sex marriage and the nation's continuing high unemployment are tempering African-American voters' enthusiasm for his re-election bid.

More than 700 people turned out for workshops Tuesday intended to connect laid-off Sparrows Point workers and contractors with health insurance, training and other aid.

A settlement agreement ending health benefits for Sparrows Point workers Aug. 31 was approved Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del.

The United Steelworkers union warned laid-off Sparrows Point workers Tuesday to brace for an imminent loss of benefits.

Maryland lost 11,000 jobs in June, the fourth straight month of employment declines, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday.

When employers fail to pay decent wages and benefits, the economy falters

As bad as it has been for federal employees this year in Congress, experts and lawmakers say it's about to get a lot more dicey because of the 'fiscal cliff' issues Washington must resolve by the end of the year.

Federal spending grew far faster under Republican presidents than under Democrats

Robert Reich says the U.S. economy won't get moving again until the middle class regains its bargaining power

Three Baltimore residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme to claim at least $409,000 in unemployment benefits, prosecutors said Thursday.

The National Labor Relations Board has sided with about 350 taxi drivers at BWI, ruling that they should be classified as employees, not independent contractors, by the company that holds the contract to run cabs at the airport.

Workers in many fields today are dealing with uncertainty. But Sparrows Point employees have had more than their fair share.

Elected officials threatening to shut down the East Baltimore Development Inc. project in Middle East may wind up hurting those they want to help.

The first big wave of layoffs hit Sparrows Point on Friday after owner RG Steel essentially shut down its critically important blast furnace.

Sparrows Point workers and government officials are in the dark about when the bulk of the 1,975 layoffs will hit the Baltimore County steel mill, though the cuts are imminent.

The owner of the financially ailing Sparrows Point steel plant warned workers Thursday that it will close the mill and lay them off because of a cash crunch as its explores a sale.

Maryland's deputy secretary of labor stepped up Thursday as interim secretary, filling a job emptied when his predecessor became chief of staff to Baltimore's mayor.

Rising inequality is leading to boiling frustration, at home and abroad

Government waste extends far beyond Vegas and into the summer jobs program

President Obama managed to double gas prices during his first term; will a second term bring us $8 a gallon?

The Aegis police blotter lists the most recent arrest, crimes and other police reports.

The new face in the office of the publisher of the Baltimore Jewish Times and Style Magazine is Zvi Guttman, who has begun the work of a bankruptcy trustee: selling the business and searching for assets to pay creditors.

Supreme court has long wrestled with question of religion in the public sphere

Most of us know the basics about Social Security, but there's a lot more to the program.

The Aegis police blotter lists the most recent arrest, crimes and other police reports.

Though just two Baltimore Police officers accused of taking kickbacks from Majestic Auto Repair are on trial this week in federal court, witnesses, prosecutors and attorneys have broadly described cops behaving badly.

Renewal of unemployment benefits, a largely overlooked, $30 billion element in the debate over the payroll tax cut extension, comes at a hefty cost