Rebound leads AP’s top business stories of ’09

In 2009, the economy was near collapse before pulling back from the brink of depression.

Few borrowers helped by modified mortgages

One of the biggest challenges to ending the foreclosure crisis is this: A surprising number of homeowners who get their monthly payments reduced fall behind again within a year.

Economists: We don't need more stimulus

The U.S. economy doesn't need another round of government stimulus spending to stay afloat in 2010, according economists surveyed in msnbc.com’s year-end roundtable.

States’ jobless funds going ‘absolutely broke’

40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks, according to federal projections.

Advocates want more for black unemployed

In the battle against black unemployment, places like the Opportunities Industrialization Center are ground zero.