The improving U.S. jobs trend confirmed by Friday’s data favors the old over the young. A solid 227,000 jobs were added, with upward revisions for past months, even though the unemployment rate stayed at 8.3 percent. However in the last five years, people

Even people who are relatively happy at work go through periods when they hate their jobs—for days, weeks or even months at a time. Just read between the lines of the recent obituaries of CBS newsman Mike Wallace, who died on April 7 at the age of 93.

Today is my first day at a new job. This is only my third job change in almost 20 years. The second one didn’t really count since the century-old firm I was at dissolved and I didn’t have a trust fund to retire on when it happened, and I didn’t win th

Burger-flipping used to be a job for teens: badly paid and a rite of passage. But it's increasingly become a job for older Americans, many of them women, and many with children at home to support. The median age of fast-food workers is now over 28, accord