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President Obama's State of the Union proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour has the retail industry on edge and fast food stocks struggling.

In Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Obama turned that old feminist rallying cry that "the personal is political" on its ear with a long list of proposals that argued that the personal is economic -- and the economic is political.

In President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, he mentioned the word "jobs" 46 times, more often than he did in any of his prior presidential addresses, signifying what will be the focus of his second term.

President Barack Obama laid out an ambitious agenda, both economic and otherwise, in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Here are the highlights of those proposals.

President Obama has a lot to cover in tonight's State of the Union, from guns to global warming to trade to jobs. But it'll be the economy that gets the most attention, and that's a battleground where he's been on a roll lately.

As President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, he presides over an economy much healthier than the one he inherited four years ago. Yet growth remains slow and unemployment high.

Cyber attacks have hit a host of major U.S. companies and government agencies in recent months, an issue President Obama may address in his State of the Union Tuesday -- and then in an executive order aimed at improving our defenses against them on Wednesday.

President Obama is expected to call for comprehensive trade and investment talks with the EU in his State of the Union speech tonight. An agreement that phases out tariffs, harmonizes product standards and reduces barriers to trade would have huge implications, far beyond economics.

Karen Mills is leaving her post as head of the Small Business Administration, opening yet another Cabinet-rank job for President Barack Obama to fill at the start of his second term. Obama says Mills played a leading role supporting start-up businesses and entrepreneurs.

As Forbes begins to release details about 2013's new billionaires, we decided to take a peek at the people who already dominate the list. Think you know the scoop on the super-rich? Take our quiz and find out.

Recently, Appinions, an influence marketing company, released an infographic that helps explain the mechanics of the gun debate -- most notably, how the focus and devotion of the pro-gun lobby consistently trump the efforts of gun control advocates. Take a peek:

President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a short-term deficit reduction package of spending cuts and tax revenue that will delay the effective date of steeper automatic cuts now scheduled to kick in on March 1. Obama said the looming sequestration cuts would be economically damaging.

When the next Forbes billionaires list is released, 32 new names will be on it. And while most hail from the sort of countries you'd expect -- the United States, China, EU nations -- a half dozen made their fortunes in more surprising places.

Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman, two of the country's richest men, have been engaged in a long-time rumble, most recently over diet pill maker Herbalife. But on Friday, the conflict heated up when Icahn unloaded on Ackman on national TV.

Everyone knows high fashion and high incomes go hand in hand, and clothes, cosmetics and perfume have put plenty of people on Forbes' billionaires list. But here's a surprise: The latest list has 34 new names, and 10 came from the world of fashion.

This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in every state, marking the debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act. The goal is quality coverage for millions of uninsured people. But the devil is in the details

By EDITH M. LEDERER DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - The fragile state of the world economy, along with the relentless turmoil in Syria and the rocky fallout from the Arab Spring, dominated discussions during this year's annual gathering of the global elite at Davos, leaving many participants uneasy...