Unemployment Hits Less-Educated Workers Much Harder Although the nation's unemployment figures are grim for everyone in the labor pool, they don't cut equally across demographic groups. Not surprisingly, better-educated workers fare better than those with less formal schooling -- much better.

Health Costs Send Many to Mexico, Study Finds

Nearly a million Californians, perhaps hundreds of thousands more, cross the border to Mexico every year because they cannot afford the rising cost of health care in the United States, according to UCLA researchers.

U.S. Job Losses Drive 'Third Wave' of Foreclosures

As job losses rise in the United States, growing numbers of American homeowners with once-solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclosures.

Scarce Summer Work Going to Adults--Not Teens

Teen summer employment has dropped like a stone. A study by the Center for Labor Market Study at Northeastern University found the summer employment rate of 16- to 19-year-olds fell from 48.4 percent in 1989 to 32.7 percent last summer.