Many are trying to enter Europe to escape violence and find job opportunities.

Falling oil prices slashed thousands of jobs in oil and gas extraction, including some on the Bakken oilfield in North Dakota.

There are programs to train more women for those jobs, but progress is slow.

Women make up fewer than 3 percent of construction workers.

Pay, benefits costs grew at annual rate of 2.2 percent in 2014 – a telling trend.

Obama has offered several previews in the weeks leading up to the speech.

Some economists say the jobs being created now don't deliver enough economic punch.

As the numbers for December come in, we take a look back at 2014.

And the danger of heralding the return of manufacturing to the U.S.