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Commentary: Tax Deal Affirms Federal Unemployment Insurance Role For U.S. Workers
20/02/2012 Comments Off on Commentary: Tax Deal Affirms Federal Unemployment Insurance Role For U.S. Workers
By CHRISTINE OWENS — The payroll tax compromise affirms the critical role of the federal unemployment insurance program, on which millions of Americans have relied since the recession began to search for jobs, support their families and contribute to their communities. Despite extreme efforts to dismantle this basic safety net and impose significant new barriers on […]
Continue reading …What Are The Consequences Of Unemployment?
17/02/2012 Comments Off on What Are The Consequences Of Unemployment?
One portion of a recent Congressional Budget Office report (released 16 February 2012) on high unemployment recounts some facts about effects of unemployment what should seem obvious, but bear repeating. Ultimately it is the human costs of an economy racked by the consequences of Bush-era capitalism gone wild that will take the biggest tool on […]
Continue reading …What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?
05/10/2011 Comments Off on What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica — Waht is Obama’s actual record on creating jobs? The U.S. economy has been staggering for months and is still millions of jobs away [1] from recovering from the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the recession. Indeed, the official unemployment rate has hovered around 9% or 10%[2] for more than […]
Continue reading …America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers
26/09/2011 Comments Off on America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers
By Braden Goyette ProPublica America’s Sputtering Economy, by the Numbers. With increasing signs that the economy is laboring [2], most economists agree that a short-term infusion of spending, or an extension of this year’s temporary cut in Social Security taxes, could help fend off a new downturn. But whatever one thinks of the debt deal […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill