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Showing posts with label Unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unemployment. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Latest Federal Data Confirm: College NOT Road to Prosperity

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College educated people do have higher incomes and lower unemployment rates, on average, than those who have not been to college. Howe...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

California, Poorest/Richest State in the Nation

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California currently has more than 600,000 millionaires and 85 billionaires in the Forbes 400 list , far more than any other state in ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Youth Poverty At An All-Time High

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Empty Pockets (Image by barbaranixon from Flickr) A new report from the Washington DC-based Urban Institute indicates that the ove...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Today in Labor History—December 31

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December 31, 1890  - Ellis Island opened on this date in New York City, where millions of  immigrants to the United States first set f...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Exchange Students Win $200K Settlement for Exploitation at Hershey Plant

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Last year there was  strike at Hershey Chocolate by 300 foreign students  living here on J-1 work-study visas. According to  Democracy No...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Inconvenient Truth About Wages: They’ve Dropped 19% Since 1970 For Men and 6% for Women Since 2000

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons I have written repeatedly in this blog about the declining wages and living standards for American work...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Breaking News: American Dream is a Myth

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American Dream? (Image from Flickr, by OakleyOriginals ) Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz was recently on The Daily Show...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

300,000 Teaching Jobs Lost Since 2008

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Over 100,000 teaching jobs were lost in the past year, while more than 300,000 have been lost since 2008, according to a recent article...