Jobs
Obama: No trade deals without help for workers
May 24, 2011The Obama administration tells congressional Republicans, biggest backers of so-called "free trade" treaties, they must restore trade aid for workers who lost their jobs to imports.
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Baltimore residents push for restoration of funding for youth jobs
May 20, 2011Scores of citizens weighed in on Baltimore's preliminary fiscal year 2012 budget before members of the City Council.
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What will it take to pass a jobs program?
May 18, 2011The failure to enact a big enough economic stimulus is the biggest reason the country's in this mess. Obama and the movement that led to his election were too young; the victory was too new and...
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Unemployment insurance under attack
May 17, 2011Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and in a number of states are out to kill, or at least cripple, unemployment insurance.
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People power takes over Wall Street
May 13, 2011An outpouring of 10,000 New Yorkers swept into lower Manhattan on May 12 to demand that Wall Street and the big billionaires pay their fair share.
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