Work and Economy
December 16, 2010 -
By Corey Hutchins, Columbia Free Times When Gov.-elect Nikki Haley said her nominee to head up the state's labor agency will aid her in helping "fight the unions" -- and specifically help keep unions from organizing at aircraft-maker Boeing's North Charleston assembly plant -- the director of South Carolina's leading labor organization reacted by asking her group's national office to investigate whether such declarations were in line with the law.
December 7, 2010 -
Some of the nation's biggest polluters including BP and Duke Energy won exemptions from a basic environmental law under the Obama administration's economic stimulus, according to an investigation
November 30, 2010 -
By Marian Wang, ProPublica Unless Congress acts to extend programs for those who have exhausted regular state unemployment benefits, millions of jobless workers may soon be phased
November 22, 2010 -
Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money.