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Obama turns up the heat on big business

February 7, 2011 By John Wojcik

The president's speech to the Chamber of Commerce Feb. 7 was much more than the "thaw with business leaders."

Facing benefit cutoff, jobless “99ers” organize

February 7, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

Activists note official unemployment in Connecticut has more than doubled to about 170,000 since 2007, with no sign of improvement. It's a crisis for the entire state and demands emergency attention, they say.

It’s official: jobless rate in January at 9 percent

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Unemployment dropped in January by .4 percent to 9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was the second straight .4 percent monthly decline in the official rate. That was the only good news in...

Neighborhood Grocery Initiative takes on non-union megastores

February 4, 2011 By Tatyana Torregian And Marilyn Bechtel

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 in northern California says the year 2011 poses unprecedented challenges for its members working in the grocery industry.

Republicans set to kill mortgage assistance programs

February 3, 2011 By Joe Sims

Republican members of Congress have set their sight on gutting assistance to troubled homeowners at risk of foreclosure.