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The March employment summary showed a net jobs increase of 162,000 for the month, the best result reported by employers since October 2007, raising hopes that the deepest jobs recession since the Great Depression is at least stabilizing. Source: Calculated Risk But there was little change in overall unemployment, still stuck at 9.7 percent. The... 

Janitorial jobs have suffered much like any other industry jobs have due to the economic crisis across the country. What Are They? The definition for these types of jobs is rather broad, they are often confused with cleaning type jobs but according to the Department Of Labor, these types of jobs are more technical than cleaning jobs.  Read More →

Bloomberg has a massive new poll (conducted by Selzer & Company, margin of error 3.1) covering tons of economic issues, including the BP oil spill and financial reform. “Which of the following do you see as the most important issue facing the country right now?” Unemployment and jobs comes in first, at 41%. The federal deficit and government... 

Last Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department was worse than expected . The headlines focused on the 263,000 jobs lost in September and that the official unemployment rate increased, yet again, to 9.8%. But no matter where you drill down in the report, it’s bad news. That’s no surprise to those on the economic front lines, Americans... 

Too many of us are unemployed. Where’s the green jobs revolution that was supposed to save the economy? How about Obama’s infrastructure projects, have those eased the nation’s 10% unemployment pain yet? Despite politicians’ rhetoric, those two sectors haven’t provided a parachute for America’s employment nosedive.... 

If ever there was a time for a fierce urgency to confront the massive jobs crisis in America, that time is certainly now. Today the AFL-CIO, NAACP, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Council of La Raza and the Center for Community Change announced they will urge the White House and Congress to move forward on a new comprehensive plan... 

Harold Meyerson writes about Working America in the Washington Post : In an April speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Trumka affirmed that “working people are right to be mad at what has happened to our economy and our country.” Our political leaders, he continued, need to validate that anger — and remedy its... 

The campaign promoting substantial new jobs plans to address the unemployment crisis got a real boost with the formation of Jobs for America Now , a major coalition of more than fifty national organizations including Working America . In announcing this broad coalition of labor, civil rights, community and progressive policy groups, the groups noted... 

Last week the jobs bill passed the Senate. It had cleared the House earlier in the month. At a time when so many Americans are out of work, one would think that such a bill would be supported by nearly everyone. One would be wrong: While the measure won support from some Republicans, others in the party were skeptical that it would help create jobs,... 

A plan to support the creation of up to one million jobs was announced today by a group of House Democrats led by Education and Labor Committee chairman Rep. George Miller (D-CA) . The Local Jobs for America Act would support public and private jobs the next two years in local communities across the country. It is the largest direct job-creation... 

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