Generation Recession
Lizzy Ratner : Youth
Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
2009
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Help Wanted
The Editors
Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
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Will Unemployment Sink Obama's Agenda?
VideoNation
The Nation's John Nichols looks at the political risks of joblessness, and discusses the need for a second stimulus.
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By the Numbers
David Cay Johnston
Since 1940, Democrats have had far greater success creating jobs than Republicans.
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Our Jobless Recovery
Leo Hindery Jr. & Leo W. Gerard : U.S. Economy
The solution to the jobs crisis depends on manufacturing and trade policy reform.
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Jobs With Justice or Just Jobs?
GRIT TV
As the nation struggles to save and create jobs, how do we make sure workers aren't robbed? Plus: the battle to confirm Hilda Solis.
2005
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The Delphi Oracle
The cynical restructuring plan for bankrupt Delphi Automotive calls for massive wage and benefit givebacks for 51,000 American workers. Governors of affected states must craft strategies to minimize loss of jobs and income.
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Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench
Nicholas von Hoffman : United Auto Workers (UAW)
Delphi's bankruptcy is a marker of a new America in which there is no collective security, no union to make you strong, no government to give you shelter, in which workers stand alone.
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Squeezing the Have-Nots
William Greider : U.S. Economy
Fitful efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast unfold against a backdrop of looming economic disaster: rising unemployment and interest rates, misplaced priorities and a recession that will hurt the weakest most.
2004
2003
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Letter From Silicon Valley
As unemployment soars, many workers are rethinking their libertarian views.
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