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GOP push millionaire tax break, cut off of unemployment

November 15, 2010 By John Wojcik

Republicans want to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, but they won't commit to extending unemployment compensation for millions of workers at risk of losing their benefits at the height of the holiday season.

Unemployed rally in Chicago after elections

November 10, 2010 By Scott Marshall

The Chicago Unemployed Workers Council, a project of Chicago Jobs with Justice, staged a jobs demonstration last Friday to coincide with the release of unemployed figures for October.

One-half of black youth with diplomas jobless

November 3, 2010 By Joe Sims

Already facing disproportionately high levels of unemployment due to systemic racial discrimination, the recession removed job opportunities for nearly half of those with diplomas and eligible for work.

Unemployed workers face the Grinch

October 27, 2010 By Art Perlo

As the holiday season approaches, it's Grinch time for unemployed workers and their families, thanks to congressional Republicans.

Union construction jobs at stake Nov. 2

October 25, 2010

Midterm elections are next week and union construction jobs are up for grabs in California. Nonunion building contractors in the state, hungry for a bigger share of public sector projects in the wake of the building...