economy
Today in Labor History: Big job loss announced this day in 2008
December 5, 2012On Dec. 5, 2008 the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the economy had shed 520,000 jobs the month before.
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Job growth the key to avoiding fiscal disaster
November 30, 2012The media is absorbed now with trying to decide how close President Obama and House Republicans are to a deal that would avoid the "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year.
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$27 million granted to hire New York’s unemployed for Sandy relief
November 27, 2012There were protests to demand power be restored and for more help with the clean up. This situation to too big and too costly for private, profit-making companies to handle.
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New political movement rising in Mexico
November 26, 2012A new center-left political movement, called the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) has emerged on the Mexican political landscape.
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Climate change: A stark choice for humanity
November 19, 2012Planet Earth is facing a double whammy - an environmental meltdown and an economic crisis.
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