Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• White House reports 1 million jobs saved, created

  September 10, 2009 in Nation/World White House economists said today the Obama administration’s recovery efforts have saved or created more than one million jobs so far. 1

• CdA cleaning supplier moving jobs to Mexico

  June 23, 2009 in Idaho A Coeur d’Alene cleaning equipment supplier is eliminating 40 local jobs as it moves production to Mexico over the next six to eight months to save money. 1

• Jobless rate bolts to 8.5 percent, 663K jobs lost

  April 3, 2009 in Business The nation’s unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide swath of employers eliminated 663,000 jobs. It’s fresh evidence of the toll …

• Homeless count to identify community needs

    January 28, 2009 in City Homelessness, a chronic problem in Spokane, may become more prevalent in the severe economic downturn as Washington companies shed jobs by the thousands. The annual winter homeless count, which occurs …

• L.A. man upset over job kills wife, 5 kids, himself

  January 27, 2009 in Nation/World A medical technician fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself Monday after claiming in a note to a TV station that he and his wife both had just …

• Stocks fluctuate on anxiety over earnings reports

  January 26, 2009 in Business, Nation/World Wall Street has managed an advance the hard way — zigzagging in response to a mix of earnings and economic news before closing moderately higher.