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Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

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Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

By R.W. GREENE— There are few things more stressful than being unemployed when you don’t want to be. Your future is uncertain. The world, too often, seems smaller and darker than it actually is. You’re likely on a budget, restricted from buying fun things. Few things amuse. Except for the place where you may be […]

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Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

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Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

By KIM PARKER and WENDY WANG, Pew Research Center— The way parents spend their time has changed dramatically in the past half century. Dads do more housework and child care; moms have more paid work outside the home. Neither has overtaken the other in their “traditional” realms, but their roles are converging, according to a […]

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Obama Could Give These Striking Low-Wage Workers The Raise They Need

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Obama Could Give These Striking Low-Wage Workers The Raise They Need

By LAURA CLAWSON, for Daily Kos Labor— The latest round of low-wage workers to stage a one-day strike don’t work for Walmart or McDonald’s. They work for the federal government, kind of—for federal contractors in landmark Washington, DC, buildings like Union Station and the Smithsonian museums. A recent report from the think tank Demos found […]

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Workers’ Co-operatives: Challenges, Opportunities For Creating Jobs

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Workers’ Co-operatives: Challenges, Opportunities For Creating Jobs

GENEVA – The economic contribution of co-operatives is often undervalued, if not completely ignored. But the reality is that the top 300 co-operatives workers’ worldwide have a turnover of more than US$ 1.9 trillion combined, which is more than the GDP of Italy. In Quebec, co-operatives are responding to the needs of the labor market […]

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Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt

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Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt

By Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmid, ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, Marketplace– Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation’s military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400%. The Military Lending Act sought to protect service members […]

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Unemployment: First Time Jobless Claims Soar To 360,000

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Unemployment: First Time Jobless Claims Soar To 360,000

By METEOR BLADES, Daily Kos Labor— First-time claims for unemployment benefits took an unexpected leap for the week ending May 11, rising to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the Department of Labor reported. That’s 32,000 above the previous week’s revised figure of 328,000, originally reported as 323,000. It was the biggest climb since the aftermath of Hurricane […]

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Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

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Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

AlterNet— A new movement of fast food workers demanding better wages and the right to unionize spread this week to St. Louis and Detroit, bringing the total number of such actions to four in five weeks. Similar strikes occurred last month in New York and Chicago. As during the strike in New York, we’ve put together […]

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Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced To Wait At Security Off The Clock

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Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced To Wait At Security Off The Clock

By STEVEN HSIEH, AlterNet— After spending 12 hours a day packing boxes, Amazon warehouse workers must wait at security checkpoints for up to 25 minutes without pay before going home, the Huffington Post reports. Nevada workers Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro are leading a class-action lawsuit against Integrity Staffing Solutions, which finds workers for Amazon, for uncompensated […]

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After Bangladesh How To Avoid Buying From Firms That Endanger Workers

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After Bangladesh How To Avoid Buying From Firms That Endanger Workers

By BRYCE COVERT, Think Progress— After the Bangladesh clothing factory collapse, responsible shoppers want to avoid supporting companies that don’t care about their employees. Here’s how. Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry makes it the world’s second-largest apparel exporter, and the United States is its second-largest buyer after Europe. With the factory collapse death toll now more than 800, […]

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Are You Unemployed Over 55? Grey Haired And 55 Or Older Need Not Apply

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Are You Unemployed Over 55? Grey Haired And 55 Or Older Need Not Apply

By R.W. GREENE— To judge from unemployment rates, you might think it’s not too hard to pull off the trick of finding a job while having grey hair and being 55 or older. After all, the unemployment rate last year for people aged 55 and older stood at 6%. That number has even improved slightly […]

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