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A New Generation of Dreamers: Freedom Rides yesterday and today

January 25, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

A month-long celebration linking the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides that desegregated interstate transportation in the South with today's movements to address racism, violence and unemployment was kicked off here.

“The Company Men”: It’s tough for bosses

January 24, 2011

The story of a laid-off worker would have made a much better movie than this one, about three executives dealing with unemployment.

Food stamp use jumps to record rates in Illinois

January 20, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

In Illinois, the number of families in need of food assistance has jumped nearly 13 percent, creating not just a political or economic issue, but a moral one.

Trumka: State of the Union must be a call to action on jobs

January 19, 2011 By John Wojcik And Jordan Farrar

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged President Obama to make next week’s State of the Union Address a “call to action, a call to invest in our future, to create jobs, to be the country we can...

How to read those December unemployment figures

January 10, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The nation's unemployment rate declined 0.4 percent in December but only because unprecedented numbers have dropped out of the workforce altogether.