Citing worsening U.S. economic conditions, GM and Chrysler told the Obama administration Tuesday that the companies need at least an additional $14 billion in loans to survive. ...more

February 18, 2009

Valerie Iengo of Port Richey says we should be battling against the current economic difficulties, not matters of personal choice. ...more

January 14, 2009

The Bush administration is looking at "orderly" bankruptcy as a possible way to deal with the desperately ailing U.S. auto industry, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday as carmakers readied more plant closings and a half million new jobless claims underscored the deteriorating national economy. ...more

December 18, 2008

The Avon Park location where the Heartland Workforce Mobile One-Stop visits has changed. ...more

August 31, 2008

Ford Motor Co. is cutting North American production of pickups and SUVs as car buyers seeing record gas prices turn toward more fuel-efficient models. The automaker says it no longer expects to return to profitability by 2009 and didn't rule out layoffs and plant closings. ...more

May 23, 2008

Roger B. Smith, 82, who led General Motors Corp. in the 1980s and was the subject of Michael Moore's searing documentary "Roger & Me," died Thursday in the Detroit area after a brief illness, GM said. ...more

December 1, 2007