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.
March jobs not enough to reduce unemployment rate
This morning's release of the government employment report showed 162,000 payroll jobs gained in March, the largest jump in three years.
There they go again! GOP denies jobless benefits to thousands
When Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma left for his "Spring Break" on March 29, he also left some 200,000 jobless Americans without badly needed money to provide for their families.
Hearing investigates jobs crisis in Dallas
The North Texas Workers Rights Board, an adjunct of Jobs with Justice, held public hearings on the jobs crisis recently at Judge Luis Sepulveda's courtroom in Dallas.
