More stay-at-home moms are finding side jobs to boost income.

A struggling economy has left many families struggling to put food on the dinner table. 

South Carolina’s jobless rate dropped slightly in September, a month after state unemployment reached a 15-year high. The Employment Security Commission on Tuesday attributed the lower rate of 7.3 percent, compared to 7.6 the month before, not to an improving economy but to the unemployed halting their job
searches.

The stage has been set for South Carolina legislators to debate how they’ll cut $488 million in spending that mostly will affect colleges and health programs.

The head of the Federal Reserve is backing the idea of a second economic stimulus to help Americans.

A fiberboard manufacturing facility in South Carolina is closing, taking about 100 jobs from the Holly Hill area.

Today in Washington, we get a fresh batch of economic reports, a day after another big sell-off on Wall Street.  The Dow fell another 733 points. 

General Motors has announced plans to close a Michigan metal stamping plant and stop making sport utility vehicles in Wisconsin by the end of the year.

As world finance ministers look at the big picture in Washington this weekend, workers around the country are starting to see the impact of this credit crunch.

On Thursday the federal government considered yet more action to revive credit markets still strangled by the U.S. mortgage meltdown.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson go before a House panel, a day after senators took them to task.

State officials say layoffs in manufacturing and construction added 14,000 South Carolina residents to unemployment rolls last month and pushed the jobless
rate to a 15-year high.

The Fort Mill, S.C.-based company makes polyester fibers and products including packaging resins.