Paul Buchheit / Common DreamsNov 26, 2018
When it comes to critical economic and social issues, the mainstream media have left the general population dangerously ill-informed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BOB SALSBERG and ANGELIKI KASTANIS / The Associated PressMar 31, 2018
African-Americans remain chronically underrepresented in high-salary jobs in technology, business, life sciences, architecture and engineering, an AP analysis finds. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 7, 2014
Despite 9 million Americans remaining out of work, economists hailed the drop of the U.S. unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2008 on Friday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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BLANKSep 10, 2013
New federal statistics show a jobs market still far below pre-recession levels, despite record profits by corporations sitting on record levels of cash. What does it all mean? People want to work, but companies don't want to hire. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 8, 2013
The 179,000 jobs created in May and boasted about by the Obama administration are no more than "the usual lowly paid non-exportable domestic service jobs -- the jobs of a third world country," former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 8, 2013
Roughly 150 Americans die on a daily basis as a result of their jobs, a new study from the AFL-CIO has found. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 3, 2013
The U.S. economy appears to have added just enough jobs in April to keep pace with population growth, and the new positions are low wage and mostly nonunion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 15, 2013
Despite the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that U.S. unemployment fell to 7.7 percent in February, the real jobless rate stands at 23 percent. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigFeb 2, 2013
We are in the most anemic recovery in modern history, yet our political leaders in Washington aren’t doing squat about it. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 15, 2012
Fresh research has convinced scholars that even with progress in education, the black jobless rate in the United States remains twice that of whites because whites are typically better connected to people who can make introductions and are more likely to hear about job opportunities. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigNov 2, 2012
The nation's jobless rate ticked up in October, even as employers added 171,000 workers to their payrolls, according to the latest jobs report -- the last one before Election Day. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigNov 2, 2012
In truth, no one should vote based on this batch of jobs numbers because a single month’s report isn’t a reliable gauge of which way the economy is heading. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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