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latoya wrote a new blog post: UCubed: Employment Data Fails to Comfort Jobless (1 week, 6 days ago)
Washington, D.C., May 04, 2012 – The latest employment numbers from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reflects the despair felt by America’s unemployed, with an increased number of working age Americans giving up on finding any kind of job.
Despite an official employment rate that dropped one-tenth of a percent and the addition of [...] -
latoya wrote a new blog post: Summary of U.S. Real Unemployment — April 2012 (1 week, 6 days ago)
by Leo Hindery
Chairman, Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation
Our Summary of U.S. Real Unemployment includes everything that BLS leaves out. It also identifies the Real Jobs Gap which needs to be closed in order to be at 5% full employment in real terms, job openings, and average weeks unemployed. As of March [...] -
latoya wrote a new blog post: Thanks, Frank and Marcy! (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
Want to thank someone on Capitol Hill?
How about Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who introduced S.1517, the 21st Century Works Progress Administration (WPA) Act? Or Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), John Reed (D-RI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mark Begich (D-AK) who cosponsored S. 1517?
Lautenberg’s WPA 2.0 authorizes $250 billion to employ individuals who have [...] -
latoya wrote a new blog post: As Crisis Wears On, ‘UCubed’ Aims to Be Megaphone for Unemployed, and Ignored (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
By Roger Bybee
Published Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In These Times
“o one is hiring for entry level jobs, temp services are taking advantage and not even finding steady positions for people, the wages are so low and college graduates are not finding work in their chosen fields…yet the politicians want to play the old “blame game”; it [...] -
latoya wrote a new blog post: Long-Term Jobless Face New UI Crisis (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
Several states will begin dropping long-term, unemployment-insurance recipients from their rolls next month.
Beginning April 7, 2012, jobless residents living in Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin will begin to lose their benefits. The federal Extended Benefits program, which grants claimants in states with high unemployment rates an additional 13 to [...]
