economy – Page 217 – People's World

Detroiters worry about war’s impact on troubled city

December 3, 2009 By John Rummel

DETROIT - Marchers here had no shortage of ideas for better ways to use the money.

We need jobs now!

December 2, 2009 By Dick Meister

Of all the ideas out there on how to pull us out of the economic mess we're in, none makes more sense than the program laid out by the AFL-CIO.

One million new jobs possible, says economic study

December 1, 2009 By Joe Sims

Over one million new public service jobs could be created at a cost of $40 billion according to the Economic Policy Institute in a report released on Monday.

Budget cuts hampered response to giant fire, firefighters charge

November 28, 2009 By Press Associates Inc.

LOS ANGELES - In the latest indication of how budget cuts endanger public safety, the firefighters union president says the mayor's slashes hampered the response to the huge Station Fire in September.

Minnesota experience may offer solution for ‘jobless recovery’

November 27, 2009 By Barb Kucera

When President Obama convenes a White House forum Dec. 3 to consider ways to create jobs, he should ponder a program that worked successfully for Minnesota in the 1980s.