May Jobs Report: 2.5 Million Jobs Gained, Unemployment Falls To 13.3%
Mary Margaret Olohan on June 5, 2020 The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May, while the unemployment declined to 13.3%, according to Department...
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“This Is A Health, Economic and Civil Liberties Crisis”
Texas announced on Friday that they would become the first in the nation to open their economy back up in incremental steps beginning Monday, April 20th....
Unemployment Claims Surpass Great Recession
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Initial claims for unemployment insurance soared to 6.65 million for the week ending March 28, exceeding last week’s shocking 3.3 million, and dwarfing the...
7 Quotes That Reveal the Racist Origins of Minimum Wage Laws
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Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states began 2019 with a new minimum wage. Three states...
May Jobs Report: Unemployment Rate Hits 16 Year Low
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The U.S. economy added 138,000 new jobs in May, according to the jobs report released by the...
Is Welfare Keeping Americans Trapped in Poverty?
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By Juliegrace Brufke GOP lawmakers said the nation’s welfare system is keeping Americans trapped in poverty during the Ways and Means Committee hearing on the welfare...
Coal Miner Confronts Hillary, Gets Her To Apologize For Saying She’d Put Him Out Of Work
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By Chris White Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton apologized Monday for saying in March that she would put coal mines “out of business” after being confronted...
Over 11,000 Coal Miners Lost Their Jobs In The Last Year
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Michael Bastasch Coal mines shed more than 11,000 jobs in the last year, according to recently released employment data, as the industry continues to...
O’Malley: Only Humans Suffer from Unemployment
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Martin O’Malley is taking the Bernie Sanders approach to getting headlines: say ridiculously stupid things. O’Malley astutely observed that animals don’t have employment problems. Of...
The Myth of “Misemployment”
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by Micah J. Fleck came across an interesting video recently, produced by the website The Book of Life, titled “Misemployment.” In the video, a...