unemployment
Unemployment at 50 percent, Detroit vows to fight
October 14, 2010Though she is without full-time employment, Emily Norton works even harder today. She now has four part-time jobs but earns just one-third of what she made while working full time.
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Town hall meet pledges to back BevMo! workers
September 27, 2010What if full-time job you had counted on for years, to support your family and provide health care was morphing into a part-time job with no benefits?
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Jobless jeer GOP Kirk on economy
September 17, 2010CHICAGO - "Thirteen hundred teachers have been laid off in Chicago, put on unemployment, their houses and cars being taken and what do we have? Mark Kirk is up there hiding!
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Thousands nationwide to rally for jobs
September 14, 2010CHICAGO - Hundreds of activists will rally downtown at GOP headquarters here Sept. 15 for a federal jobs bill and against senatorial candidate Mark Kirk, an Illinois congressman who has opposed numerous job creation bills.
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White House considering more economic stimulus
September 3, 2010In the face of the bad news about unemployment rising to 9.6 percent from last month's rate of 9.5 percent there are reports that the White House is considering an emergency economic stimulus.
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