
Unemployed workers face the Grinch
As the holiday season approaches, it's Grinch time for unemployed workers and their families, thanks to congressional Republicans.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Unemployed Man!
Ultimatum, a superhero who fights negative attitudes with platitudes, ("Stop blaming others and start blaming yourself!"), runs afoul of his Board of Directors and becomes Unemployed Man.
The barbarians are at the gates
For the Republican Party, which tells lies as fast as McDonald's makes burgers, there are no moral restraints, only the overarching desire for power.

Relieve the unemployment pain now!
The reality is that unemployment insurance extension is one of the best things that can be done right now to help the economy. Contact your senators today.
A united fight on jobs
To win jobs for all, it requires a multi-racial united movement.

DOL official: Economy ‘not normal,’ recovery way too long
WASHINGTON (PAI) -- The current economy is "not normal," unemployment affects different groups of people than it did before, and the recovery - in terms of the joblessness numbers - will take longer than it did in prior slumps, the Labor Department's top economist says.

Want to become a day laborer?
Day labor status is being forced on more and more full-time American workers, whether they want it or not, and a new book tells precisely what it's like.

Answer to youth violence is jobs, not National Guard
I think it's absolutely ridiculous that two Illinois lawmakers are requesting to bring in the National Guard as a way to control youth violence.

A rising tide of anger
Unemployment, hunger, 25 coalminers dead, yes, there is a rising tide of anger in the country.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s what we need!
Diehard conservatives - mostly Republicans - are willing to let the elderly, the disabled and the children die, while they themselves do nothing but scream, "No new taxes!"

