unemployment
Labor freezes Ohio GOP attack on unemployment benefits
December 5, 2016Over 400 unionists packed the statehouse, dealing a setback to Republican plans to cripple the state’s unemployment insurance system.
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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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Unemployment rate rises in June to 4.9 percent
July 12, 2016Unemployment for African-American teenagers jumped by 33,000 from May to June, and their joblessness rose to 31.2 percent.
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Gun control alone can’t curb violence
January 7, 2016Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.
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Student loans are screwing your granny
November 5, 2015"I keep hoping that some day the opportunity will come up where I can satisfy my debt."
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