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Peggy Mashke tends to 12 children for 12 hours a day at her home, so she was surprised to get a letter welcoming her to the United Auto Workers union. "I thought it was a joke," said Mashke, 50, of northern Michigan's Ogemaw County. "I work out o
If we didn’t have this giant military jobs program, the U.S. unemployment rate would be over 11.5 percent today instead of 9.5 percent. And without our military jobs program personal incomes would be dropping faster.
Just a few minor things to catch up on for the weekend now that the Fundraiser-in-Chief has gone on another vacation (Don't worry though. White House chef Sam Kass went along, so the first family need not eat ordinary human food.)
The number of U.S. workers making new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week to the highest level in nine months, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday -- a distressing sign for an already weak labor market. Init
Even the criminals have fallen on hard times in America's poorest city as the long-term unemployed struggle to keep a grasp on normality
The Senate voted 60-40 on Tuesday to move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, 2.5 million of whom have missed checks since the end of May as Republicans and conservative Democrats filibustered several bills to
On Friday, the Schwarzenegger administration won an appellate court ruling saying it has the authority to impose the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour on more than 200,000 state workers as California wrestles with its latest budget crisis.
"In the two and a half weeks since June 1, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cut off. By June 26, that number will top 1.2 million. Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that the number of new claims f
For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine's small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog. It's been estimated that more than 400 canneries have come and gone along the state's long, jagged coast.
Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let's see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away. Even before President Obama sig
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it plans to cut 2,000 jobs this year as part of an effort to realize savings in its refining operations, as the oil major signals that recent woes in the business of making gasoline and diesel fuel
A small group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement in the latest sign of congressional disillusionment with free-trade deals. The bill spearheaded by Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississip
Government system employers can use to check a potential hire's eligibility to work in the U.S. accurately flags unauthorized workers less than half the time, according to a research report. A report from Westat found that the Department of Homeland
Got friends that say there's no recession? Haven't felt the bite yourself? Chances are you are in the top 13%. We have a "trickle-down, torrent-up" system of institutionalized wealth and poverty.
The majority of people are operating on lower mental circuits, the oral-biological, and the anal-territorial. They strive for power, not truth. But what is that bit of them that makes thm so unpredictably violent and petty?
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs By PETER S. GOODMAN BUENA PARK, Calif. — Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of
If you read much about the U.S. economy, surely you already know that since WWII the services sector has grown, and the manufacturing base has contracted.
United Parcel Service Inc. said first-quarter profit would be “slightly better” than a year ago, signaling that the world’s largest package-delivery company expects a recovery to build through 2010.
The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school, according to research released on Tuesday. Teenagers have found it significantly har
Unemployment claims have been flooding into the [Connecticut] state Dept. of Labor, dragging the filing system to a crawl. “Due to the high volume of claim filing, you may experience some difficulty filing your claim via the Web or by telephone. We a
i have it seen in our local newspaper, but heres one online http://jobs.trovit.com/jobs-by-company/patriot-news-employment-ads foster care is not "job" so to speak, to clarify as employment, the money you receive from the state is a flat rate thu
The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law with the actual change in state payroll employment through November 2009 (the latest figures available).
The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week as the recovery of the nation's battered labor market proceeds in fits and starts. The Labor Department said today that the number of new jobl
Fabian Gutierrez logged more than 60 hours a week slicing meat and stocking shelves with cheeses and milk at a neighborhood grocery for less than minimum wage and no overtime. The 32-year-old Mexican immigrant said he put up with the situation fo
House Democratic leaders, bowing to opposition from their party's deficit hawks, have decided to move the final must-pass piece of legislation of the year without a long-term increase to the national debt and a large boost in infrastructure funding t
The Obama administration plans to channel money from the government's massive financial bailout program to small businesses as part of an effort to limit the political and economic damage of high unemployment. One plan under consideration involves
This is a moving county by county map of unemployment rates in the USA from 2007 to now. Wow!
The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the recession began. The better-than-expected job figures are a rare note of encouraging news for the labor market. Still, the res
In a hopeful sign, the number of newly laid-off U.S. workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, dropping below 500,000 for the first time since January. And consumers started spending again in October as the
As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. It's forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims.
