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June 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president spoke about the new economic trouble in detail for the first time since a report…
June 3, 2011
OPINION - I feel like Bill Murray every single month when I receive the monthly unemployment reports...
June 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas…
May 25, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Not all the jobs will be new hires. GM has about 1,300 laid-off workers waiting to be…
May 23, 2011
OPINION - Throughout history black men have always been dealt a bad hand and despite that we have always risen…
May 13, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Cleaver told TheGrio, "no president is always right. We have taken every president to task since…
May 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week, reversing nearly all the sharp rise…
May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. companies in March advertised the most jobs since the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, a…
May 9, 2011
OPINION - Low-income youth and minority youth of all income levels are far less likely to obtain employment than whites...
May 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006...
May 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Since children, especially younger children, do not posses the vocabulary or emotional maturity to express their own…
April 28, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Running on a campaign platform of job creation and economic development, finance attorney Terri Sewell struck a…
April 20, 2011
VIDEO - Witnesses say that two girls started fighting with others in the parking lot when the McDonald's owner and…
April 13, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. businesses in February posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, evidence…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - Until we attack the social structures that are at the root of racial inequalities in the U.S., we…
March 4, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - Obama says the latest numbers show that the economy has added 1.5 million private-sector jobs in the…
March 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - African-American unemployment dipped to 15.3, while black teen unemployment declined sharply to 38.4 percent...
March 4, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - The jobless rate for black teens has consistently been higher than any other demographic since the Bureau…
March 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The third immigration hearing since January focused on whether illegal immigration contributes to higher jobless rates among…
March 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and other lawmakers say the GOP want to…