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March 9, 2007 – Employers added just 97,000 jobs in February, marking the nation’s weakest job growth in two years. Read more here.
Read moreMarch 1, 2007 – Despite the devastation and job loss the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) brought on working families, the Bush administration is using the same faulty trade model in the U.S. – Korea Free Trade Agreement (also known as KORUS). The Economic Policy Institute recently held a hearing examining the results of
Read moreFebruary 26, 2007 – Millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line as the gap between the rich and poor continues to widen. A McClatchy Newspaper analysis of the 2005 census figures (the latest available) found that nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. An interesting finding from
Read moreNobody knows for sure what happens to workers who have lost their jobs and have exhausted their state unemployment benefits. “A lot of these people fall through the cracks,” said employment analyst George Erickcek of the W.E. Upjohn Employment Institute in Kalamazoo. “Our data collection is not that good on individuals who are in dire,
Read moreMilitary veterans and the aerospace industry in Kansas could be dual beneficiaries of a unique program that seeks to match highly-skilled, highly-disciplined former soldiers with good paying jobs in that state’s rapidly expanding aircraft building industry. In an historic meeting of labor and business leaders, IP Tom Buffenbarger joined with Spirit AeroSystems CEO Jeff Turner,
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