Sour economy confounds Dems
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five months before the elections, the uneven economic recovery is sputtering and job growth is anemic. Stock prices are down to 2011 levels and news on the European debt front is menacing...
Unemployed drug users in Ga. risk benefits
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgians who fail a drug test while trying to get a job could lose their unemployment benefits under a new policy being quietly implemented by the state's Labor Department...
Bad news in May 2012 jobs report
(AP) - U.S. employers created only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate ticked up.
Politics and the jobless rate
WASHINGTON (AP) - The weak May unemployment report presents President Barack Obama with a sobering reminder...
Black women benefiting during weak jobs market
theGRIO REPORT - Since December, black women have knocked more than 3 percentage points off of their unemployment rate, going down from 13.9 percent to 10.8 percent. That drop is the largest for any demographic group...
Romney: Economy should be creating 500,000 jobs a month
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seeking an election-year advantage on the economy by setting 4 percent as a target for the nation's unemployment rate...
Decline in government jobs hurts black Americans
theGRIO REPORT - Blacks have been disproportionately affected; about 20 percent of black workers are in government jobs at the state or local level.
Black unemployment dips, as US rate hits 8.1 percent
MSNBC - The U.S. economy generated fewer jobs than expected in April, but the unemployment rate dipped slightly and data from prior months was revised upward...
Black people more likely to be jobless in Britain than US
A paper presented on Friday at the British Sociological Association's annual conference in Leeds shows that in the last three recessions, unemployment among black British men was up to 19 percentage points higher than among those in America...
7 jobs that don't pay as well as we think
People who work as doctors, flight attendants and news reporters are not earning the kind of enviable salaries that many think they do...
