unemployment

White collar unemployment blues, take four

July 11, 2017 By Michael Arney

For the fourth time in my adult life, I've been laid off. Each is intertwined with the capitalist system I was born into and cannot escape.

Labor freezes Ohio GOP attack on unemployment benefits

December 5, 2016 By Bruce Bostick

Over 400 unionists packed the statehouse, dealing a setback to Republican plans to cripple the state’s unemployment insurance system.

Unemployment would be 6.2 percent if it included discouraged jobseekers

August 8, 2016 By PAI

Governments never hired back all the workers they fired in the Great Recession, and there's been a resulting drag on the current recovery.

Unemployment rate rises in June to 4.9 percent

July 12, 2016 By PAI

Unemployment for African-American teenagers jumped by 33,000 from May to June, and their joblessness rose to 31.2 percent.

Gun control alone can’t curb violence

January 7, 2016 By Jesse Jackson

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.