Recession – Page 5 – People's World

Poverty rate rises to 15.1 percent, number of uninsured to 50 million

September 13, 2011 By John Case

The Census Bureau is reporting that the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 27-year high.

Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day

September 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A report on U.S. occupations - sorting 366 defined jobs data into high-income, middle-income and low-income posts - reveals data to back what workers know by instinct: The jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession were...

In Connecticut the fight for jobs is on

August 11, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

"Connecticut workers want Congress to act on the jobs crisis with the same urgency that was brought to the manufactured political crisis over the debt ceiling."

Labor says jobs deficit is the real crisis

August 2, 2011 By John Wojcik

Labor leaders say the nation's real crisis is not a debt crisis but an unemployment crisis and spending cuts could, in fact, spiral the country into an even deeper recession.

Shipyard workers see chance to save their jobs

July 14, 2011 By John Wojcik

Workers, unions, community groups, small businesses and others in the fight to save 5,000 jobs at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans are feeling better now about the possibility of a victory.