Jobs
GE closing upstate NY plant, betraying workers, community
January 23, 2014Despite 17 bargaining sessions over a 60-day period, GE has decided to shutter its 75-year-old plant in Fort Edward, New York.
Read moreDoes December jobs report mean recovery?
January 13, 2014Here the big question on the minds of most working people I talk to: is the talk of economic recovery from the 2008 depression BS? or for real?
Read moreJobless rate drops because 525,000 stop searching
January 10, 2014The unemployment rate ended up at 6.7 percent in December, down from 7.9 percent at the end of 2012 and 0.3 percent but only because more than half a million people stopped looking for work altogether,...
Read moreOn recession’s sixth anniversary, U.S. still down 8 million jobs
January 9, 2014Six years after the onset of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy needs nearly 8 million jobs to return to pre-recession health.
Read moreLabor and allies turn up heat on GOP over jobless benefits
January 9, 2014Organized labor and its allies have turned to public pressure to push resurrection of the benefits through a hostile GOP majority in the U.S. House.
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