Even before the world knew him as a genius, the FBI had the book on Steve Jobs. In a 1991 background check, the FBI pegged Apple’s co-founder as brash and unlikable and noted his early drug use. Most tellingly, the agents, evaluating Jobs for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush, said acquaintances found him to have a peculiarly driven nature. Read full article > >

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Steve Jobs’s unflattering FBI file mentions drug use, 2.65 GPA

Steve Jobs, being considered in 1991 for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush, underwent a thorough background investigation by the FBI, according to newly released files from the agency. The FBI amassed a lengthy and often unflattering file on Apple’s co-founder, with more than 30 interviews of friends, neighbors, family, former business associates and Jobs, that revealed his early drug use and concerns that the then-head of NeXT was neglecting his daughter born out of wedlock with his high school girlfriend. Read full article > >

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FBI’s Steve Jobs file: He will ‘distort reality … to achieve his goals’

“When you include the number of people who have quit looking for work because they’re convinced the Obama administration’s economy is so bad they can’t find a job, it jumps up to about 12 percent. When you include the number of people who have part-time jobs who wish they had a full-time job, it’s at 16 percent or 17 percent. I mean, this is an administration which has actually shrunk the workforce fairly dramatically. In the last year, it’s the lowest male participation rate in the labor force since the 1940s — so right after World War II.” Read full article > >

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The unemployment number: Is Gingrich right that it’s flawed?

Displaying youthful vigor, Henrique Capriles sprang from his campaign van in the center of this farm-belt town on a recent day, leading his followers on a sprint along narrow streets. Teenage girls mobbed him, mothers wanted to talk about better schools, and unemployed workers asked about jobs. And some even told him: You look like Hugo Chavez did in 1998, the way you energize your followers. Read full article > >

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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces tough challenge in likely foe Henrique Capriles

Displaying youthful vigor, Henrique Capriles sprang from his campaign van in the center of this farm-belt town on a recent day, leading his followers on a sprint along narrow streets. Teenage girls mobbed him, mothers wanted to talk about better schools, and unemployed workers asked about jobs. And some even told him: You look like Hugo Chavez did in 1998, the way you energize your followers. Read full article > >

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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces tough challenge in likely foe Henrique Capriles

George Osborne promises to fight an “anti-business culture”, warning that the row over bonuses and pay threatens to undermine jobs and prosperity.

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Bonuses row ‘threatens business’

An overheated industry has gone bust. A tepid economy is not producing enough jobs. And a successful businessman promises he can use his private-sector experience to jump-start the economy. This is presidential candidate Mitt Romney now, but it was also Romney nearly a decade ago when he ran for governor of Massachusetts, a state that was still reeling from the tech bubble’s burst. Read full article > >

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As Massachusetts governor, Romney had an unremarkable record on jobs

As government cuts 15,000 jobs.

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Greece Delays Rescue Deal

Nearly 90 District government employees were placed on leave Monday in a prelude to their potential firing and prosecution after officials determined they had received fraudulent unemployment benefits while holding their city jobs. Read full article > >

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D.C. workers face firing for unemployment fraud

Just before 1:30 p.m. Aug. 3, a frustrated President Obama gathered Gene B. Sperling and the economic team in the White House and told them to design a jobs package he could offer the American public. Obama had spent much of the year locked in negotiations with Republicans over the national debt, with little to show for the effort but a sagging approval rating. He had wanted to argue publicly for ideas to create jobs, but hesitated in the midst of negotiations. Liberal critics reprised a familiar critique of the Obama White House: that it too often bows to political constraints and forfeits what’s right for what’s possible or easy. Read full article > >

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Gene B. Sperling: Obama’s jobs creator

Stocks react to positive jobs numbers.

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Dow Has Best Day Since Crash

Stocks react to positive jobs numbers.

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Dow Has Best Day Since Crash

The US economy created 243,000 jobs in January, while the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%, official figures show.

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US job numbers show strong growth

The United States economy gained momentum in January, adding 243,000 jobs, the second straight month of better-than- expected gains.

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U.S. Economy Added 243,000 Jobs in January; Unemployment Rate Is 8.3%

President Obama proposes a jobs plan for veterans | Homeless shelter population in New York City reaches a record high | Creative bets on the Super Bowl.

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TIMESCAST: TimesCast | February 3, 2012