economy – Page 167 – People's World

Poverty up, uninsured up

September 22, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

The Great Recession hit home and hit hard in 2009, the Census Bureau said, as the number of uninsured leaped by 4.4 million in one year.

Baltimore backs Oct. 2 march

September 21, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

The City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the October 2 One Nation Working Together march, and a local coalition is working to fill 100 buses.

Painters bus tour rallies the vote

September 20, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky

ST. LOUIS - A nationwide, month-long "It's About The Jobs" bus tour organized by the Painters Union made a lively stop here last weekend.

JEERS to greedy financiers, CHEERS to candy

September 20, 2010

Cheers for workers defending the little candy company that makes those hearts, and jeers for the venture capitalists putting on the squeeze.

Jobless jeer GOP Kirk on economy

September 17, 2010 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO - "Thirteen hundred teachers have been laid off in Chicago, put on unemployment, their houses and cars being taken and what do we have? Mark Kirk is up there hiding!