Economy
February 19, 2010 -
NOTE: I'm back from a family funeral in South Carolina. Thanks to my colleague Sue Sturgis for holding down the fort in my absence.
February 16, 2010 -
NOTE: The following contribution comes from Claudia Rowe, a writer with the Equal Voice newspaper of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech.
February 12, 2010 -
U.S. unemployment rate in January 2010: 9.7%
February 11, 2010 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest It would not surprise me if the people who do public relations forToyota are flipping through their old scrapbooks to cheer themselves up
February 6, 2010 -
Ajamu Dillahunt is a long-time labor and community activist in the South, outreach director at the N.C. Justice Center and co-chair of the board of the Institute for Southern Studies.