unemployment
Tell Congress to extend unemployment benefits now!
December 19, 2013In 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.
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Today in labor history: FDR unveils Civil Works Administration
November 8, 2013President 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...
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Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
November 8, 2013WASHINGTON - 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...
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Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe
November 5, 2013Because Germany has the biggest economy in the EU, and is at the center of a "core" of wealthy nations that also use the Euro - France, Austria, and the Netherlands - Berlin largely calls the...
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Today in labor history: Wall Street crash of 1929
October 29, 2013The Wall Street Crash was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the U.S. Iit signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.
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