How to read those December unemployment figures
The nation's unemployment rate declined 0.4 percent in December but only because unprecedented numbers have dropped out of the workforce altogether.
AFL-CIO head: Unemployment benefits fight just opening shot in long battle
"Soon, the same lawmakers who fought to get tax cuts for millionaires will come after Social Security and Medicare in the name of deficit reduction and 'shared sacrifice'," AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka warned.
Out of work bricklayer tells lawmakers what "hell" is like
The 13-year veteran of Bricklayers Local 1 in New York has been out of work since October. And the West Babylon, Long Island, resident, who provides for his wife, two kids and 86-year-old mother who lives with the family, doesn't see any work coming along for "another five or six months."
Town hall meet pledges to back BevMo! workers
What if full-time job you had counted on for years, to support your family and provide health care was morphing into a part-time job with no benefits?
Jobless jeer GOP Kirk on economy
CHICAGO - "Thirteen hundred teachers have been laid off in Chicago, put on unemployment, their houses and cars being taken and what do we have? Mark Kirk is up there hiding!
Thousands nationwide to rally for jobs
CHICAGO - Hundreds of activists will rally downtown at GOP headquarters here Sept. 15 for a federal jobs bill and against senatorial candidate Mark Kirk, an Illinois congressman who has opposed numerous job creation bills.
Unemployment benefits extension clears hurdle in Senate
Millions of jobless Americans will continue to receive unemployment benefits through November after a GOP-led filibuster was finally killed today in the U.S. Senate.
Extension of aid to jobless should pass Senate Tuesday
Democrats are expected to have the 60 votes needed to cut off a GOP filibuster against extension of unemployment benefits.
Your mailman searches for the ghosts of Tom and Joe
Today a young couple with two kids told me a sad story: they are giving their house, a house they had built just eight years ago, back to the bank.
Chicago labor to march for jobs
Under the banner of "Good Jobs Now! Make Wall Street Pay" Chicago labor and allies will be marching on LaSalle Street, Chicago's version of Wall Street.
