unemployment

Republicans leave unemployed #OutInTheCold

January 8, 2014 By Teresa Albano

Heavy lobbying efforts were underway to extend unemployment insurance for the more than 1 million long-term jobless.

Emergency action urged on unemployment benefits

January 2, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Call Congress at 1-877-318-0483 with the message "extend unemployment insurance now."

Tell Congress to extend unemployment benefits now!

December 19, 2013 By Joelle Fishman

In addition to the 1.3 million who will be immediately cut off, an additional 3.6 million people will lose benefits in the coming year unless Congress acts.

Today in labor history: FDR unveils Civil Works Administration

November 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration on November 8, 1933, a short-lived program, but one that created jobs for millions of unemployed workers, giving temporary relief to the suffering in the midst of...

Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up

November 8, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate...