Six Sectors Creating Jobs (Forbes)

While many industries are shedding jobs and fueling unemployment, these have been hiring.


Obama pushes trade initiative as jobs helper (AP via Yahoo! News)

President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.


Obama outlines strategy to boost US exports -- and jobs (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)

President Obama moved Thursday to create a high-level team to promote US exports, with the goal of creating 2 million jobs within the next five years.


Jobs, jobs, jobs: For Obama, they lie in more exports (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)

President Obama plans to create 2 million new jobs within five years by doubling – yes, doubling – US exports. To achieve that stunning goal will require him to bang forcefully on the doors of many countries that now block American goods and services.


Siemens expanding NC power unit, adding 825 jobs (AP via Yahoo! News)

German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG plans to add hundreds of jobs as it expands a North Carolina unit into a global production hub for a type of gas-powered turbine for electric utility plants.


New jobs bill is destined for failure (CNN)

Congress has stripped the jobs bill of the reinvestment in America's infrastructure that would put people back to work and make the country more prosperous in the long run.


Canada Dollar Near Highest Level in 5 Months Before Jobs Report (Bloomberg)

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's dollar traded near the strongest level in five months against the greenback as crude oil and stocks gained before a report tomorrow forecast to show the nation's economy added jobs in February.


New Jersey gov looking into privatizing state jobs (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie created a task force Thursday to look at ways to privatize state jobs to save money as he tries to find a plug for a projected $11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year.


New Jersey Governor Christie May Privatize State Jobs (Update1) (Bloomberg)

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he may privatize some state jobs in 2011, as he struggles to close an $11 billion budget deficit amid rising costs for employee salaries and benefits.


Canada Dollar Gains as Stocks, Crude Rise; Jobs Report Looms (Bloomberg)

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's dollar reversed losses and rose for a 10th consecutive session as crude oil and stocks gained before a report tomorrow forecast to show Canadian employers added 15,500 jobs in February.