unemployment
Jobless rate drops: positive trend but some cautions too
February 3, 2012The nation's official unemployment rate fell in January to 8.3 percent, down from December's 8.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Unions urge House GOP to stop holding workers and the jobless hostage
December 20, 2011The AFL-CIO is urging everyone to call House Speaker John Boehner at 202-225-0600, telling him to stop playing politics with the lives of working families.
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Sidewalk “chalk” protest for unemployment benefits becomes a crime
December 13, 2011When Occupy Springfield protesters chalked slogans on the sidewalk in front of GOP Congressman Aaron Schock's district office, it suddenly became a crime.
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Jobless rate drops to 8.6% because 315,000 drop out altogether
December 2, 2011This morning's government report was full of unsettling statistics.
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Jobless enter Capitol, demand benefits extension
December 1, 2011Two hundred unemployed workers marched into the halls of Congress yesterday and served their lawmakers with 75,000 signatures on petitions demanding extension of unemployment benefits for the six million Americans about to lose them.
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