When the economy is poor, they are still out there pounding the pavement, making calls.

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Clearly, pounding the pavement is a popular pastime in Boston, where the biggest annual event is a marathon.

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We hope they're over-confident there, because we're pounding the pavement there, we're getting voters out to the polls.

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The story of Franny Banks, an aspiring actress pounding the pavement in New York City in the 1990s, is semi-autobiographical.

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Congress needs to renew unemployment insurance for Americans who are still out there pounding the pavement and looking for work.

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Extend unemployment benefits so that millions of workers who are still pounding the pavement looking for jobs can support their families.

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But he's spent countless hours pounding the pavement for local candidates and holding voter-registration drives in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colo.

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The fact that it rises can mean that more people have gone from giving up on their job search, to pounding the pavement, as CNN reports.

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Carriers who spent years pounding the pavement relax under palm trees in a kind of mail carrier bliss: no ice to tumble on, no snow to slosh through, and best of all, no furry foes.

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