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United States Department of Labor

More than 800 construction workers die and another 137,000 are seriously injured on the job each year in the United States, according to the Department of Labor. Its a tragic number and the worst part is that so many deaths and injuries are preventable. Aside from simply being deadly, however, the industry is imperiled by as [...]

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I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but times is hard on the boulevard. Even after some decent news on job creation in March that led President Obama to say “we are beginning to turn the corner,” the unemployment rate remains at a troubling 9.7%. That’s a really, really bad number — particularly when you look [...]

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It sounds like a joke in this economy, but it’s true. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, U.S. workers are more confident about having enough savings for retirement even after the percentage of savers declined. It states that the 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey finds that the “record low confidence levels measured during the past [...]

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