Reuters - President Barack Obama is considering economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and Laura Tyson, a senior economist in Bill Clinton%27s White House, to take over as one of his top policymakers, an administration official said on Friday.

AP - Businesses hired a few more workers in July, but not nearly enough to bring down the unemployment rate, according to a Labor Department report released Friday.

AFP - The US economy shed more jobs than expected in July, the Labor Department said Friday, heightening fears that the world%27s largest economy will take years to fully recover from a crippling recession.