... status for Alamo's ministries in the 1980s after investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Labor Department. After the hearing, Ervin said the government couldn't decide what represented a real church. "They've done ...

... setting them up in commercial operations rather than rely on donations like traditional ministries. By the 1980s, the Labor Department said Alamo had to pay his followers at least minimum wage; the IRS later laid claim to millions of dollars in taxes ...

... 5 percent. Just as worrisome, wages shrank to their lowest in nearly a year. The bleak news Thursday from the Labor Department underscored one of the big threats to an economic turnaround: Rising joblessness and falling wages for those still ...

... but conceded their marriage is in trouble. The Labor Department received a complaint against the show and is "gathering ... lawyer at Cozen O'Connor in Philadelphia, said the Labor Department might well decide it doesn't have jurisdiction ...

... difficult time." The question of the children's well-being has come up before. Last month, Pennsylvania's Labor Department said it had opened an investigation into whether the show is complying with state child labor laws, after receiving ...

... and Democrats alike, but was built to predict, not count jobs. To count jobs, economists traditionally rely on Labor Department data on unemployment, manufacturing and construction activity, and county-by-county, state-by-state job ...

... consulting firm IHS Global Insight. Economists think the Labor Department is likely to report next week that employers shed ... after reaching a 16-year high the week before. The Labor Department said jobless claims fell to 529,000, down about ...

... a deepening recession. The Labor Department reported that initial requests ... in the automotive sector. A Labor Department analyst, meanwhile, said auto ... rapidly in recent months. The Labor Department said earlier this month that ...

... confidence, which is expected to rise to a reading of 45.2 for this month, up slightly from 44.9 in November. The Labor Department will report on weekly jobless claims Wednesday, after a 26-year high of 586,000 initial filings in the week ...

... industrial average fell 143 points Friday to end the week down nearly 5 percent, the worst week since November. The Labor Department's unemployment report showed widespread damage across U.S. industries and workers ' hitting blue-collar and ...