Finally we are getting our lazy welfare recipients away from their t-bones and out of their Cadillacs. This will teach them: An emergency federal program that acts as a lifeline for 1.3 million jobless workers will end on Saturday, drastically curtailing government support for the...
unemployment
While I am concerned about Scott Walker being one Republican who can actually win the lunatic Republican primary and win the general election, he's going to have to run against.
No wonder the Fed is talking about reducing stimulus policies. The poor are rolling in the dough! This morning’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the economy.
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen's previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like workers' council through the United Auto Workers. One major challenge I think this attempt faces...
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the WonkBlog is promoting conservative economists that want to allow employers to pay less than the minimum wage. [SL] I suppose considering Obama's.
The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting.
I agree with Dean Baker that the 7.7% unemployment rate is likely a blip that will rise right back up with the cascading impact of the sequester and continued decline in public sector work. Not to mention other fundamental issues such as people simply leaving...
A reader suggested I take a look at Hamilton Nolan's ongoing Gawker series of unemployment stories. They make for harrowing reading, and a lot of them are from attorneys. Here's.
Dana Goldstein's latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who.
Romney has critiqued Obama for being '"a “job killer” who is “in over his head”'; and one quote (which I can not source at the moment) has him claiming to have created more jobs as Governor of Mass. than Obama has done for the...
I've long thought that Democrats could open make a lot of political hay by centering veterans' benefits in their programs and rhetoric. During the Bush administration, I was consistently outraged.