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The truth is finally out.
Despite all his cries—and we’re not talking about his tendency to tear up—of “Where are the jobs?” and criticism about President Obama’s jobs record during the campaign, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) really doesn’t give a (fill in the blank) about jobs or the people who find themselves on the unemployment line.
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U.S. manufacturing is at a “make or break” point and it will require more, not less, government investment in key areas to ensure our future prosperity, according to a new book by one of the nation’s top CEOs.
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Leveling the playing field by enforcing our trade laws against
currency manipulation
is a no-cost action that will create jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today.
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This week in Washington, D.C., thousands of conservative, very conservative and downright OMG extreme conservative activists will gather for the Conservative Political Action Committee’s (CPAC) annual choir session.
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Looking for a job but don’t know what you want to do or where there’s a job that fits your skills? Check out the U.S. Labor Department’s new online tool. The My Next Move website, launched late last week, provides job seekers with information on more than 900 occupations, as well as local job openings and training opportunities, in a simple, user-friendly format.
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While it is good news that the national unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent in January, it is important that we look deeper into the statistics to find the real story of this recession.
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Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted an early Spring on Groundhog Day, but the thaw in the jobs market is still far away. The U.S. Labor Department
reported today
that the country created only 36,000 jobs in January–not nearly enough to keep up with the growth in the workforce.
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Three years after the Great Recession officially began, nearly
27 million U.S. workers
either are jobless or in need of full-time work. At the sluggish rate the economy is creating jobs, it will take up to a decade or more before pre-recession levels of unemployment are restored, according to a new report.
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The Senate last night rejected a Republican move to repeal the health care reform law. Maybe now they will focus on the nation’s most pressing need—JOBS.
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The economy has changed significantly over the past 30 years, but those changes have not made life better for low- and middle-income Americans. In the latest edition of “
The State of Working America
,” Economic Policy Institute (
EPI
) economists point out that while the American workforce is larger, more diverse, and better educated than ever before, income growth has been slow and inequality has grown.
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