Second Bill of Rights
Modern day slavery?
George Carlin - Right!
State of the Union
- President Obama echoes Elizabeth Warren
- Age Discrimination Harder To Fight Amid Record Unemployment For Older Workers
- Economists Call For Massive Debt Relief To Jumpstart Economy
- Marty Kaplan: Occupy K Street
- Zvi Or-Bach: How to Create American Jobs
- #OccupyWallStreet Protests Spark Optimism At Progressive Political Conference
- Ben Bernanke: Congress Should Not Sharply Cut Spending In Weak Economy
- Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Top Brass The Most
- Elizabeth Warren: 'The People On Wall Street Broke This Country'
- Joel Libava: Franchise Ownership: Should Unemployed Boomers Start Looking Into It?
- Michele Nash-Hoff: Why is There a Lack of Skilled Workers With Such High Unemployment?
- Jason Alderman: The 411 on Prepaid Cards
“The Occupy effect? In the last 3 months, Americans switched banks at three times the normal rate.”
Two summers ago, at the U. S. Social Forum, I attended a panel discussion about ways to expand the use of credit unions as alternatives to the “too big to fail” banks whose risky investments had helped tank the economy. ch of the speakers—people involved in credit union leadership or advocacy—expressed confusion and frustration that they hadn’t already seen a post-crisis shift away from corporate banks and toward credit unions (which have the advantages of being not-for-profit, owned and governed by their depositors, far more likely than big banks to lend to small businesses, and not responsible for any global economic meltdowns).
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- More than 40% of households are less than three months from poverty
- Despite Salary Caps, Treasury Approved Lucrative Exec Payouts for Dozens of Bailed-out Firms
- Non-CEOs Received a Nice Pay Rise in December
- Unemployment insurance benefits increase job-search activities
- Drug Test The Jobless
- Stacy Mitchell: Another Shocking Fact About the Walmart Heirs
- Prosecuting Wall Street
Congress, what part of this don't you understand?
NoJob Story #1909: "I am 61 years old and have been out of work for 2 years. I have a BSCE in Civil Eng'g., a PE license and an MBA. I have worked and paid taxes since I was a teen. Nobody looks at my resume after seeing my age. ..."
Contact your local Congressperson -- passionately tell them YOUR story.
Minimum Wage
Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.
The tea party want to abolish the minimum wage. Did YOU VOTE?
Survivor Graph of the Day
- U3-U6 Unemployment Situation
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Latest News
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Jobless Update - New UI Claims Down to 2008 Levels
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Jobless Rates Drop to Lowest in Over 3 years
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Despite Salary Caps, Treasury Approved Lucrative Exec Payouts for Dozens of Bailed-out Firms
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Non-CEOs Received a Nice Pay Rise in December
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Unemployment insurance benefits increase job-search activities
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Drug Test The Jobless
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Stacy Mitchell: Another Shocking Fact About the Walmart Heirs
Tax Cuts Will NOT Help The Unemployed
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U.S. Jobless Rate
BLS Jobless Numbers
- 12.8 million - unemployed,
- 15.1%(U6) - out of work,
- 5.5 million (43%) 6 months or longer,
- 7.7 million "involuntary" partime workers,
- Over 4 million for a year, (WSJ)
- 2.0 million over 99 weeks, the 99ers!
- 4.7 jobless for every job. EPI
- 91,000 unemployed become 99ers every week.
Over 55? You will be out of work longer.
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