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Jobless data a disaster with employment levels sinking rapidly

January 12, 2026 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

Hundreds of thousands are left out of the official unemployment figures.

Jobless numbers stay high as Senate’s ruling Republicans do nothing

November 12, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The unemployment crisis continues as people run out of benefit lifelines.

Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end

August 4, 2020 By Regina Garcia Cano And Michael Casey

The nation faces the potential of being plunged into the greatest homelessness crisis in history with the federal government this far poised to do nothing about it.

D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed

July 23, 2020 By Sean Sullivan

The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.

Tenants of big landlords striking nationwide on May Day

April 30, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The landlords being targeted are the big hedge funds realty firms that own or fund tens of thousands of units nationwide – and that so far seem to have turned a deaf ear to their tenants’...