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How Many Jobless People Last Month? Who Knows
Black Commentator
All of this could be avoided with legislative action but there seems be little likelihood that the current Tea Party strangled Congress will do anything that might relieved the economic pressure on the nation’s working people.
'Here Comes the Sun' in Madrid Unemployment Office
The Beatles 1969 song is a counterpoint to Spain's soaring unemployment rate (over half of Spanish youth are out of work).
Missing Workers: The Missing Part of the Unemployment Story
Economic Policy Institute
The official unemployment rate drastically understates the weakness of job opportunities due to the existence of a large pool of “missing workers”
Unemployment, Bill Moyers and the Pope in Sardinia
Listen. That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract.
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Employment Gap Between Rich, Poor Widest on Record
AP
"The people at the bottom are going to be continually squeezed, and I don't see this ending anytime soon," said Harvard economist Richard Freeman. "If the economy were growing enough or unions were stronger, it would be possible for the less educated to do better and for the lower income to improve. But in our current world, where we are still adjusting to globalization, that is not very likely to happen."
Mobilizing for War, Not Jobs
Black Commentator
What if the White House had, at any point over the past four or so years, mobilized the full force it now deploys for permission to bomb Syria on behalf of a measure to deal with the tenacious joblessness and growing economic insecurity we see around us every day?
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