economy
One-half of black youth with diplomas jobless
November 3, 2010Already facing disproportionately high levels of unemployment due to systemic racial discrimination, the recession removed job opportunities for nearly half of those with diplomas and eligible for work.
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Trumka: Voters don’t want to go back
November 2, 2010AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said as he wrapped up campaigning in Philadelphia on Election Day that voters "don't want to go back to the times when Wall Street controlled everything."
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Television gets “Outsourced”
November 2, 2010Somehow, an NBC sitcom about U.S. jobs going overseas is becoming a hit.
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Investing in clean transportation could create 3.7 million jobs
October 28, 2010Comprehensive energy and climate policies, and infrastructure spending on clean transportation, could create 3.7 million jobs in the U.S., a new study shows.
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Capitalism sucks, unless you are very very rich
October 27, 2010Capitalism was good to the 74 wealthiest Americans whose pay was five times bigger than the previous year, while most working-class people were catching hell in the Great Recession.
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