No matter the jubilation articulated by the White House, Wall Street or the Washington press corps, happy days are most definitely not here again. So what accounts for the yawning chasm between a utopian jobless rate and a dystopian reality for a growing number of Americans?
The average full-time worker is putting in 47 hours each week, according to a Gallup survey, nearly an extra day’s worth of time.
Americans still think of the standard workweek as working nine to five, Monday through Friday, adding up to 40 total hours. But that’s not our reality. The average full-time worker is putting in 47 hours each week, according to a Gallup survey, nearly an
‘These losses are part of an alarming trend toward greater inequality and a shrinking share of the economic pie going to workers’.
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been hit the hardest, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) reported this week. NELP analyzed five groups of median wages in its report, titled
Many of them see self-employment as a shot at the “American dream.”
PORTLAND, Ore. — After immigrating to Oregon from the Mexican state of Oaxaca more than two decades ago, Paula Asuncion worked on farms and in minimum wage jobs at fast-food restaurants — a widow struggling to feed six children, sharing cramped apartments with other families. Her prospects changed two years ago after she joined a program that
Two years down, four years back up — jobs have finally returned to their pre-recession peak.
As of March, the total net loss of jobs in the United States during the official recession of 2008-2009 was finally made up. The graph below says it all:
The total number of jobs in the U.S.
There is a desperate need to reformulate the way skills are attained and retained in the country.
America finds itself in a quandary. According to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), not only is the skill level of the American working populace slipping compared with the international market, but the nation’s collective skill level is
The manufacturing of more than 850 rapid transit cars could create 20,000 jobs for the growing population of unemployment in Chicago.
This is the first in a two-part series exploring the Jobs to Move America plan and its impact on Chicago's unemployed.
When the Chicago Transit Authority opened up its bid for $2 billion for the manufacturing of more than 850 rapid transit cars for its subway and urban train system, it also requested
