Tag: unemployment
Neither pandemic nor economic collapse is going to be a short-lived...
Huge layoffs = major recession; Raging infections and deaths = major epidemic.
With record-shattering unemployment, Sanders, Schumer, and Wyden ask Trump’s labor dept:...
“It is absolutely imperative that the millions of Americans who are eligible for unemployment benefits receive every dollar to which they are entitled as quickly as possible.”
#Cancelrent: Tenants demand rent relief & organize strikes as unemployment surges...
Tenants around the country are calling for immediate rent cancellation. Some are planning to “rent strike.”
Is there homelessness in our future?
The only solution to homelessness is a combination of providing for more low cost housing and boosting income.
Job growth bounces back in June, but unemployment edges upward
While workers are seeing modest real wage growth, it is much less than would be expected with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.
Facts that privileged Americans don’t want us to know
The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.
Unemployment falls to lowest level since 1969 as economy adds 134,000...
In spite of the unusually low unemployment rate there is little evidence of wage acceleration.
Why wages are going nowhere
The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.
Record 95,102,000 Americans not in labor force; unemployment rate more like...
The reality of the unemployment situation inside the U.S. is much grimmer than any politician or bureaucrat would ever want to admit.
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US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows
This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.
Supreme silence: High court decision curtails protest rights, stifling voices in the South
As the case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings, the national discourse on the limits of free speech and the right to protest continues to evolve.
Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 riot cases amid concerns...
This law is now at the center of a legal battle concerning its suitability for punishing those who stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election results.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Bailey sues Media Matters using consumer law to censor the...
An analysis of Mo. Attorney General Andrew Bailey's bogus allegations against Media Matters.
New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s, fueling wealth inequality
This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.