Dear UCubed Leaders: Listening to the car radio last night, I heard an ad that started: We have a jobs crisis in America and Washington is making it worse. Over 21 million people are looking for full-time work. Our labor participation rate is now the lowest since the 1970s. It caught my attention. Not since [...]

Republicans have finally come up with a way to end unemployment: stop counting it. A bill introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) would prevent the U.S. Census Bureau from conducting nearly all surveys except for a population count every 10 years. For the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which relies on the Census Bureau to help [...]

The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) has launched a new Facebook campaign to encourage its 139,000 Facebook fans – and their 38.2 million friends – to hold the GOP accountable for sinking the U.S. economy. “This depression has gone on too long. And its longevity is due entirely to the GOP’s obstructionism and its affinity for [...]

Washington, D.C., May 3, 2013 – The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) warns that a red line has been crossed. Less than half of the U.S. population is now part of its workforce. “The BLS report of only 165,000 new jobs added last month underscores the pathetic response to this chronic jobs crisis by America’s political [...]

The Summary of U.S. Real Unemployment makes these several adjustments and determines the number of Real Unemployed Persons. In April 2013: The number of Real Unemployed Persons increased by 216,000 to 21.9 million (i.e., the 11.7 mm unemployed persons BLS identified plus the 10.3 mm workers in total who are marginally attached or part-time-of-necessity), specifically [...]

Dear UCubed Leaders: The Union of Unemployed is taking on an entire political party. Again. Last year our BEE MAD @ THE GOP campaign made a serious point with its zany videos. We pitted worker bees against PAC-a-derms in what seemed like a lost cause. And yet, we stung the s#!& out of them in [...]

Dear UCubed Leaders: Why? Why, with the broadest measure of unemployment – U-6 – stuck at 13.8 percent, aren’t we focusing on the massive damage being done to our country? Again, the GOP answer is CAN’T, as in we CAN’T do anything that might help our political enemies. Instead, they fill the airwaves with the [...]

Did you know that the CEOs of the “Campaign to Fix the Debt” – the corporate front group that wants to cut Social Security and Medicare and lower corporate taxes – have parked more than $418 billion of untaxed corporate profits overseas? Overall it is estimated that U.S. corporations have as much as $1.9 trillion sheltered [...]

UCubed proudly joins the National Skills Coalition and 922 state, local and national organizations in a letter to U.S. Senate and House appropriations committee members, urging more investments in labor, health and education programs. Many of the domestic programs, administered by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, have become prime [...]

Dear UCubed Leader: Why? Why, with the broadest measure of unemployment – U-6 – stuck at 13.8 percent, aren’t we focusing on the massive damage being done to our country? The answer, my friends, is the CANT of the Republican Party. The Oxford Dictionary defines cant as “hypocritical and sanctimonious talk.” So, when GOP politicians [...]