U.S.
Unemployed no longer welcome to apply for jobs?
August 30, 2011Big business has set up a new roadblock for the jobless: employers only consider hiring those who are already working, reported the AFL-CIO. In other words, the unemployed need not apply.
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Boom or bust? Two visions from a Pennsylvania park
August 30, 2011"Sacrifice our water? No fracking way!" inked on the wooden fence in Colton Point State Park, sitting squarely atop one of the world's richest natural gas deposits.
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Workers say King’s dream not yet realized
August 29, 2011A panhandler in New York's subways had worked for years as a union painter and carpenter before he was reduced, by job cuts, to begging for a living.
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Youth unemployment exacerbates violence
August 26, 2011New Haven's youth unemployment rate reflects the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent assertion that the national youth unemployment rate reached an all-time high this summer.
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Missouri GOP rep feels heat on Social Security
August 26, 2011Apparently, Congressman Akin or one of his staff had requested police presence in order to keep constituents off of the office property.
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