The rate at which Hispanics are starting up businesses climbs from 2009 to 2010, but many are not employer firms.

Manufacturing and trade business inventories rose 0.8 percent in April, slightly less than economists' expectations, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

onsin should strive to do more to grow a renewable energy economy that creates jobs in the state, the author of a new sustainability report says.

Some Hispanic farmers are angry over a $1.3 billion federal program created to settle long-standing complaints of discrimination by the federal agriculture department.

Wall Street pundits are stewing about sputtering economic growth, with extreme pessimists warning of a double-dip recession.

U.S. President Barack Obama said his North Carolina trip Monday will include legwork to find feasible measures to increase private-sector hiring.

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The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is expected to grow 41.8 percent in the next six years to 4.3 million, with total revenues surging 39 percent to more than $539 billion, according to new estimates by HispanTelligence. Spurred by growing entrepreneurial trends and affluence among the nation's largest minority population, the increase is expected to come at a robust rate of 8.5 and 8.7 percent, respectfully, over the next couple years.

Hispanic-owned companies make gains in 2010, but a balky economy continues to indicate recovery is not on a fast track.

Of all the terms describing the recovering economy -- slow, sluggish, struggling, anemic -- the one word that fits best is jobless.

Hispanic dealers for domestic automobile brands in many markets are riding the momentum of 2010.

But how much and whom depends on who's talking and what yardstick is used.

More youthful population posed to have greater influence in all segments of American society.