Jobs
“Small government” ideas promote big business practices
August 29, 2011In April 2010, RNC Chairman Michael Steele told a group of 200 students at DePaul University that African-Americans "don't have a reason" to vote for Republican candidates.
Read moreWorkers say King’s dream not yet realized
August 29, 2011A panhandler in New York's subways had worked for years as a union painter and carpenter before he was reduced, by job cuts, to begging for a living.
Read moreNew Haven candidates’ fight for jobs is “what we need”
August 29, 2011Years of struggle for good jobs at the site of the former Winchester sporting arms factory, now Science Park at Yale, came together this week when Delphine Clyburn, candidate for Board of Aldermen in Ward 20,...
Read moreA march for jobs and justice to MLK monument
August 25, 2011The Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network, the NAACP and others have called for a march for 'Jobs and Justice' in DC August 27th.
Read more15 years after welfare “deform”
August 25, 2011Aided by a Republican Congress and bitterly divided Democratic Party, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
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