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The number of homes taken over by banks reached 102,134 last month – the first time home repossessions have topped 100,000 in a single month, says real estate data company RealtyTrac. Overall, there were 347,420 foreclosure filings in September, three percent higher than August. But experts don’t expect the trend to continue, at least not
Read moreWant to know where all the jobs have gone? Visit Working America and the AFL-CIO’s new site, Job Tracker – an interactive, zip code-searchable database that lists information on more than 400,000 corporations that have outsourced jobs out of the U.S. Visitors can put in their zip code and see a list of companies in
Read moreThe deadline to reserve your discounted hotel room at the 30th Annual William W. Winpisinger Charity Banquet to benefit Guide Dogs of America (GDA) is fast approaching. The banquet will be held on Saturday, November 20, 2010, at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The yearly event is the premier fundraiser for GDA, a
Read moreForget the Tea Party zealots and their headline-grabbing antics, the real story in this election cycle is the tens of millions of dollars that are flowing from corporate extremists to front groups with progressive sounding names. Hiding behind innocuous names like, “Americans for Job Security” and “Americans for Prosperity,” these front groups are bent on
Read moreUr Union of Unemployed (UCubed) has assembled a photo gallery of the 10.2.10 Pre-Event for the Jobless held just before the One Nation Working Together March on Washington. Thousands of labor, civil rights, religious and community activists from around the country were in attendance – as were a few UCubed photographers to capture the momentous
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