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Unemployment forum: ‘Bosses will throw you away’ when they’re done with you

August 19, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Organizing unemployed workers is no easy task, but that’s exactly what some experienced activists came together to strategize for at a forum co-sponsored by People’s World and Organizing Upgrade.

People’s World to co-sponsor Sunday town hall forum on unemployment crisis

August 14, 2020 By People’s World

This Sunday, Aug. 16, at 8:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, 5:00 Pacific. Register here.

‘Out of money tomorrow’—Unemployed workers facing nightmare after $600 expires

August 7, 2020 By Sarah Skidmore Sell And Paul Wiseman

Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics.

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.

GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down

July 27, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Millions more face poverty, suffering, and even death if the Heroes Act already passed in the House doesn’t become law.