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New Equal Employment Rulings Help Transgender, Ex-Offender Workers Get & Keep Jobs

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. May 3, 2012.

This week, the EEOC ruled that transgender workers are protected under the Civil Rights Act and laid out guidelines restricting criminal background checks.

Should Joining a Union Be a Civil Right?

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. March 9, 2012.

A new book, "Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right," shows how workers can press for real penalties against bosses who fire them for trying to unionize.

How Alabama’s Extreme Anti-Immigration Law Could Cost The State Billions of Dollars

Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. February 10, 2012.

The harsh law could cost Alabama up to $11 billion in GDP and nearly $265 million in state income and sales tax, a new report found.

The Economic Idiocy of Economists

Mark Weisbrot, Comment Is Free. January 22, 2012.

With a brain trust like this, a lost decade for America looks likely – unless the citizenry can steer a different course.

How Obama Can Pummel the GOP With His Jobs Plan

Steve Kornacki, Salon. October 5, 2011.

Obama’s jobs plan is really more of a reelection plan.

By Not Creating Jobs, Obama Is Not Doing His Own Job. So Do We Have A President or Not?

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. August 24, 2011.

Instead of making jobs Priority No.1, Obama put Wall Street banksters first, dumping trillions of dollars from public funds into saving those who crashed our economy.

So-Called "Job Creators" Who Won't Hire The Unemployed

Nathan Birnbaum, Campaign for America's Future. August 11, 2011.

Allstate Insurance, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and the University of Arizona are just a few of the companies advertising that they will only hire people who already have jobs.

Americans Work Too Much and Have Too Little Time for Play: Here's How to Slow Down 'The Great Speed-Up'

Jason Mark, AlterNet. July 29, 2011.

We're being asked to do more in less time, and with less help. Here's a simple plan to begin to take back our lives.

The President's Jobs Plan (Not)

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org. July 12, 2011.

He said the economy continues to be in a deep hole, and he urged Congress to extend the temporary reduction in the employee part of the payroll tax.

Major Scandal: There Are Unbelievable Corporate Profits Being Made, So Where Are These Promised New Jobs?

Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest. March 9, 2011.

The failure of big business to accelerate hiring is putting a big halt to the emerging recovery in overall economic activity.

Saving Lives: Contest to Create Jobs for the Formerly Incarcerated

Anthony Papa, AlterNet. February 4, 2011.

An innovative project to address the question of how ex-offenders can make a life once they return to the real world.

Wage Theft Is Rampant in America -- Is Your Boss Ripping You off?

Dick Meister, AlterNet. December 28, 2010.

U.S. employers are stealing millions of dollars from their own employees -- often right out in the open, unchallenged.

Tax Cuts Simply Do Not Create Jobs

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. December 14, 2010.

We already have low taxes, and all it means is that profits for the wealthy are up.

America's Shocking Unemployment Rate Is the Big Economic Crisis, Not the Deficit

Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. November 30, 2010.

A major study by progressive economists points to employment as America's #1 economic issue that must be confronted.

Wake Up Americans: It's Time to Get Off the Work Treadmill

John de Graaf, The Progressive. September 2, 2010.

We need to come up with a different approach to work.

The Economy Is the Number on Your Paycheck, Not the Stockmarket's Ups and Downs

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. September 2, 2010.

The stock market has as much to do with the real economy as the weather has to do with geology.

DC Politicians Beware: Voters Want the Employment Crisis Fixed -- If You Mess with Social Security or Deficits, You're Toast

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 13, 2010.

A new survey finds a huge majority of Americans are in agreement about our biggest problem. Obama and the Dems better listen up.

Our Only Existing Jobs Program Is the Military -- an Insane Way to Keep Americans Employed

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. August 12, 2010.

"National security is a cover for job security. This is nuts."

Corporate Profits Return, But There's Nearly Zero Hiring

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. July 27, 2010.

Big American companies may never rehire large numbers of workers, even as their bottom lines keep growing.

Do Attractive People Have a Harder Time Getting Hired?

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 12, 2010.

A new study suggests that attractive people may be at a disadvantage in certain workplace situations: specifically, if they are being evaluated by a member of the same sex.

We Won't Climb Out of the Great Recession Until the Middle Class Has Money Again

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. June 4, 2010.

We need a new New Deal that will bolster America’s floundering middle class.

The Feeble Economic Recovery Ahead

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. April 16, 2010.

Can we call this a recovery? More Americans will be working, but for pay they consider inadequate.

Transforming the Rust-Belt into a Green Belt

Blog for Our FutureDecember 10, 2009.

How do you rebuild Allentown for the 21st Century?

Good News on Jobs Front but Still no Signs of a "Robust" Recovery

Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research. December 4, 2009.

Employers are cutting jobs at a much slower rate.

Real Recovery Is Easy to Spell: J-O-B-S

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.

The latest job numbers mock the smiley-faced claims of economists and polticos that the Great Recession is over.