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Sep 19 2022
News
In Wisconsin, Election Skeptics Deploy as Poll Watchers for Midterms
Republicans here are recruiting a fresh batch of poll watchers to monitor voting in November as part of a revamped response to allegations of election fraud that roiled the latest presidential contest.
Poll watching, a normally mundane duty where volunteers sit for hours watching for any possible rule violations at voting sites, is emerging as a flashpoint in the fight over U.S.
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Oct 14 2021
News
What you need to know about the supply chain bottlenecks
Supply chain snarls and labor shortages are driving prices higher and creating shortages as the economy struggles to adapt to a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
After slashing prices and laying off workers at the onset of COVID-19, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers have struggled for months to meet the quick rebound in demand unleashed by unprecedented federal aid and highly
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Dec 04 2020
Analysis
How to Fix a Food System That's Not Designed to Feed People
Earlier this year, Americans learned what it looks like when a food system reliant on industrial agriculture, near monopolies and exploited laborers breaks down.
Just two months into the pandemic, the meat industry in the most powerful nation in the world was buckling.
In March and April, COVID-19 swept through meatpacking plants, infecting thousands of workers. In Colorado, an
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Apr 09 2021
Analysis
Amazon Has Enough Votes to Bust Bessemer Union
Amazon employees at a 5,800-worker warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted against unionizing, according to a vote count by the National Labor Relations Board. Amazon secured a majority of "no" votes in counting that took place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
The decision, which was formalized by a vote count at the National Labor Relations Board offices in Atlanta, with 1,798
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Aug 03 2020
Interactive Debate
Is the minimum wage good for the economy?
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers. As the number of the global poor continues to increase and inflation persistently rises, the debate on the minimum wage becomes more heated.
A few key issues are references in this debate. First is the issue of worker protection. Proponents of the minimum wage argue that it increases the standard of
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Aug 12 2020
Data
Unemployment rate is higher than officially recorded, more so for women and certain other groups
The COVID-19 outbreak has presented a unique set of measurement challenges for statistical agencies. Most recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 13% in May 2020, nonseasonally adjusted. At the same time, the bureau noted that the rate may have been as high as 16% if not for an error in the classification of the employment status of
Jan 18 2021
Background
COVID-19 reality Putting your life on the line for a job
Coronavirus was racing through a McDonald’s franchise in Oakland, California, but Angely Rodriguez Lambert and her coworkers kept reporting for work, even as they fell ill. Illegally denied paid leave, the workers couldn’t afford to stay home, and were threatened with termination if they took time off. And with unemployment spiking amid the pandemic, quitting wasn’t an option. The McDonald’s
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Aug 11 2022
Analysis
The rise of the side startup
Shari Rose is working on her own SEO company while doing SEO full time for someone else.
Her full-time job involves helping dentists in California, but her new business, Blurred Bylines, focuses on small firms and nonprofits in Michigan, where she lives and works remotely. Rose says her main job is still her main priority. She also says her job is aware of her startup and is okay with
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May 13 2021
News
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to Another Pandemic Low
Jobless claims declined to a new pandemic low last week, in a sign hiring is primed to strengthen as workers return to the labor market.
Unemployment claims fell to 473,000 last week from a revised 507,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. Claims are now at the lowest level since mid-March 2020, when the pandemic shut down the economy. They remain more than twice as
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Jul 02 2021
Opinion
Immigrants can help with the U.S. ‘baby bust’
The June 26 editorial “A quickening U.S. baby bust” highlighted the daunting economic challenges posed by the nation’s plummeting birthrates. Indeed, lagging births and stagnant immigration growth will ultimately result in fewer workers and weaken the safety net that supports an increasingly aging population of elderly Americans. Before the coronavirus pandemic, immigrant workers were adding
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