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Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Sep 9, 2019 A Business Roundtable statement about the purpose of corporations shows that ruling elites fear their crimes are coming back to haunt them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Salaried Workers Beware: GM Cuts Are a Warning for All

TOM KRISHER and JOSH BOAK / The Associated Press Dec 1, 2018 With technology transforming the labor market, white-collar employees are subject to the huge layoffs factory workers know all too well. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Media Conglomerate Tronc Slashes Staff of New York Daily News

Ilana Novick Jul 23, 2018 Approximately 50 percent of the newsroom employees lose their jobs in another devastating blow to local journalism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Target Stock

Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Cagle Cartoons Mar 7, 2015 Dig deeper

Deja Newspapers: On Getting Canned by Los Angeles Times … Again

Mark Heisler / Truthdig Nov 10, 2014 A funny thing happened on the way to my second column since the Los Angeles Times hired me back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Nearly 9 of 10 Low-Wage Workers Fear They Can’t Make Ends Meet

BLANK Nov 26, 2013 A new poll finds that workers on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder face job-loss anxiety levels not seen since the 1970s. The vast majority also say they fear their family incomes can't keep them afloat financially. This is the American economic reality for those not riding the Dow Jones average. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Invasion of the Big Box Stores

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Jul 8, 2013 Dig deeper

Layoffs of Public Workers Harm Recovery

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 20, 2012 Although the private sector has made meager employment gains since the beginning of the long climb out of the recession, government jobs are disappearing at an accelerating rate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Big Buyout at the Postal Service

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2012 The money-losing USPS is offering buyouts to 45,000 mail handlers as it moves to slash its payroll and cut the number of processing centers around the country by nearly half. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Push to Preserve the Postal Service

Staff / Truthdig Sep 28, 2011 Facing a shortfall of a few billion dollars, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to drop 220,000 full-time jobs and close 3,700 post offices and 300 processing centers by 2015, while scaling back services and cutting retirement benefits. And that's after laying off 110,000 employees since 2007. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Postal Service May Slash 35,000 Jobs

Staff / Truthdig Sep 15, 2011 The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it is thinking about closing more than half of its mail-processing centers, which would eliminate more than 35,000 jobs, in order to turn a profit. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )