unemployment
Unemployment rate edges up; Businesses claim to create more low-wage jobs
March 13, 2023Cuts in warehouse workers—people added during the pandemic who are now being let go—started showing up in the jobless numbers.
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‘Be your own boss!’: The myth of unemployment as opportunity
February 7, 2023Most new small businesses fail, but capitalism’s spin doctors are still telling laid-off workers that losing their job is a chance for success.
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Surprise! Economy adds 517K jobs in January
February 6, 2023The jobs jump and prior revisions produced more good news. Unemployment declined to 3.4%, the lowest point since 1969.
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Washington, D.C.’s last Burger King closes, firing workers without notice
January 9, 2023Some workers have been here for 17 or 18 years, toiling at minimum wage with no benefits.
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Federal Reserve readies war on inflation, guess who’ll pay the price? Workers.
September 20, 2022The war on inflation is about to get ugly.
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