While many industries are shedding jobs and fueling unemployment, these have been hiring.

President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.

President Obama moved Thursday to create a high-level team to promote US exports, with the goal of creating 2 million jobs within the next five years.

President Obama plans to create 2 million new jobs within five years by doubling – yes, doubling – US exports. To achieve that stunning goal will require him to bang forcefully on the doors of many countries that now block American goods and services.

German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG plans to add hundreds of jobs as it expands a North Carolina unit into a global production hub for a type of gas-powered turbine for electric utility plants.

Congress has stripped the jobs bill of the reinvestment in America's infrastructure that would put people back to work and make the country more prosperous in the long run.

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s dollar traded near the strongest level in five months against the greenback as crude oil and stocks gained before a report tomorrow forecast to show the nation’s economy added jobs in February.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie created a task force Thursday to look at ways to privatize state jobs to save money as he tries to find a plug for a projected $11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year.