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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Grows
The July trade report is out. Exports are rising, but imports are rising even more.
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JOBS: It’s That Simple!
The plutonomy of the wealthy may be booming, but in the realonomy where ordinary Americans live and work times are still tough.
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A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
Thousands of people participated in Thursdayu2019s protests, according to OUR Walmart, and 100 were arrested.
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Another View of the Capitol, Where Jobs Are Top Priority
Now isn't the time to cut the supports the economy needs to grow again and working-class people need to get back on their feet. The No. 1 priority is …
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Our Triple Jobs Problem
If you hear somebody talking about the US ‘jobs problem,’ ask them which one they mean, says Alejandro Reuss, who points to three key issues.
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Economy Added 169,000 Jobs in August, but Downward Revisions Cloud Picture
Bad jobs are increasing because in a weak labor market, workers can't find anything better.
Black Unemployment 50 Years After the March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington was billed as a march for Jobs and Freedom.
Scot Nakagawa: Civil Rights Are for Everyone
Scot Nakagawa talks with Truthout about the impediments to American people getting real about rights.
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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …
Abracadabra, You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession.