| Jul 8, 2010 | Food / FarmingUnited Farm Workers members clearly have a sense of humor. Their “take our jobs” campaign invites and actually recruits the nation’s citizens and legal immigrants (including those who blame undocumented workers for America’s high unemployment...
| May 26, 2010 | Economy / BusinessDemocrats are working to pass legislation that will extend unemployment benefits, but it faces GOP opposition. “Republicans in the Senate will likely do everything they can to stand in the way of a bill projected to add $123 billion to the deficit,” wrote...
| May 24, 2010 | Economy / Business“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can’t afford a hamburger?” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked in 1968. Today, many of us who fought for lunch-counter rights have children and grandchildren who can’t afford a...
| May 10, 2010 | Economy / BusinessYes, jobs are hard to come by these days, but don’t despair. There’s a company that’s hiring–if you can stomach the work. It’s the Talx Corporation, and what it does is to help major outfits (from AT&T to Walmart) prevent their fired...
| Mar 1, 2010 | Economy / BusinessHard to live On lousy pay; All the good jobs Went away. Returning from Haiti makes life in America look pretty sweet…briefly. Until you read the data. The poverty rate here is up to 12 percent, or 39 million people. Unemployment hovers around 10 percent (not...
