unemployment – Page 22 – People's World

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 Rev. 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.

Student loans are screwing your granny

November 5, 2015 By Emily Likins

"I keep hoping that some day the opportunity will come up where I can satisfy my debt."

Would-be president Christie exposed by his New Jersey record

July 27, 2015 By Norman Markowitz

While Chris Christie campaigns for the presidency, the people of New Jersey continue to suffer the consequences of his disastrous policies.