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Keystone XL pipeline and the jobs controversy

February 7, 2014 By Blake Skylar

XL backers' arguments that the project is a jobs provider are being disputed. Many, including some labor activists, feel that the pipeline issue does not need to be divisive, and that they share the same underlying...

Official unemployment rate drops to 6.6 percent

February 7, 2014 By John Wojcik

The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive economic think tank, issued a statement that was positive in tone and substance about some aspects of the Labor Department's report but negative about others.

GOP tries to pit immigrants against unemployed

January 17, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Senate Dems were unable to get cloture on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for people who have run out of eligibility without having been able to find work.

Jobless rate drops because 525,000 stop searching

January 10, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The unemployment rate ended up at 6.7 percent in December, down from 7.9 percent at the end of 2012 and 0.3 percent but only because more than half a million people stopped looking for work altogether,...

On recession’s sixth anniversary, U.S. still down 8 million jobs

January 9, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Six years after the onset of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy needs nearly 8 million jobs to return to pre-recession health.