Jobs
Unions battle employers that use arbitration to curb worker rights
August 25, 2016The direct attack on worker rights engineered by Gov. Scott Walker is only one front of the war on workers.
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Economist: Guaranteed living-wage jobs best way to address inequality
August 19, 2016Noted African-American economics professor Darrick Hamilton is proposing federally-guaranteed jobs, at living wages, for everyone.
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Unemployment would be 6.2 percent if it included discouraged jobseekers
August 8, 2016Governments never hired back all the workers they fired in the Great Recession, and there's been a resulting drag on the current recovery.
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Striking Walmart workers in China contact U.S. Walmart activists
July 29, 2016"We are going to stand our ground," Zhang Liya, a founding member of the workers' network, told the Chinese labor paper.
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DNC in Philly puts spotlight on city’s pressing issues
July 26, 2016"Many parts of the city are still reeling from the loss of hundreds of thousands of factory jobs."
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