Make or break for Bush? Employment numbers look shaky for re ...
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The Bush campaign is blowing on the dice and praying for good jobs data Friday. Recruitment firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas tracks hiring and layoff announcements around the country.
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High oil prices, a stagnant labor market -- and the lack of a more forceful response from the Bush campaign -- have sparked worry among White House allies that the administration's economic team has been too content cheerleading instead of setting more detailed plans for a second term.
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US president George W. Bush could be well positioned to win the November election if the country&#39;s jobless rate holds at or below its current level, a new study suggested Monday.
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Tuesdayâs presidential election might be won or lost in eight states where the race is too close to call. What could tip the balance is jobs â-r the lack of them.
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President Bush had been hoping to wave a glowing September jobs report in John Kerry&#39;s face for the rest of the presidential campaign.
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WASHINGTON - Companies added 96,000 jobs to their payrolls in September, fewer than economists forecast for the last employment report before Election Day. The figures underscored the modest hiring pace that has become an issue in President Bush's re-election bid...
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Hiring is picking up and President Bush is on track to preside over job growth in his second term, shedding the Herbert Hoover label of being the first president since the Great Depression to lose jobs under his watch. But don't expect a revival of the booming 1990s.
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The United States posted disappointingly weak jobs growth in September, adding firepower to a pre-election Democratic assault on President George W. Bush's record.
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There may be lots of reasons to vote for John Kerry over George Bush, but &quot;job quality&quot; isn&#39;t one of them. Kerry has been telling crowds that the country is &quot;shipping jobs
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US employers added 96,000 workers in September, fewer than expected, in the last jobs report Americans will see before deciding between President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry in November.
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President Bush and rival John Kerry on Tuesday offered different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.    Kerry, moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging, used the latest forecast of a record budget deficit to bolster his contention that Bush is leading the country in the wrong direction...
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The 2004 presidential election is barely over - all the votes, in fact, haven&#39;t even been counted - yet barely two weeks after the re-election of President Bush, there has been a flurry of Cabinet resignations that might give the impression the
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The Bush administration has  overstated U.S.-funded job figures in Iraq due to what the  government said was an accounting error, but critics say may be  a bid to paint a rosier picture on the ground.
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Despite the stimulus from three rounds of tax cuts, the nation has at least 585,000 fewer jobs now than when President Bush took office.
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The nation added 96,000 jobs in September, a weaker-than-expected figure that could play a pivotal role in the presidential election.
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Job creation improved in August, but employment is below 50-year average, giving fodder to Kerry and Bush. By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A majority of Americans take a dim view of President Bush's handling of the economy and feel jobs are scarce, according to a poll released Thursday.