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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...

Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe

November 5, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

Because 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...

Today in labor history: Wall Street crash of 1929

October 29, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The 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.

Jobless rate drops slightly in September

October 22, 2013 By PAI

The U.S. unemployment rate dropped 0.1 percent from August to September, to 7.2 percent, the BLS said. The partial federal shutdown/lockout sent all of the BLS staff home in the first two weeks of October and...