Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities.
The Obama administration is continuing its pledge to reach out to these More…
Early Friday morning, Miami-Dade County Commissioners voted to approve county Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s proposed budget of $6.1 billion, which includes funding to enforce the county’s wage theft ordinance.
According to a press release issued Thursday by the mayor’s office:
“The Wage Theft Ordinance has proven to be an effective
South Florida construction workers tell The Florida Independent that about 40 to 45 men, after weeks of being stiffed out of their wages, were paid with checks issued by Florida Shell Construction at the Northwest Gardens worksite on Thursday.
Andres, a worker who asked we not use his last name, tells the More…
In July, a 30-inch oil pipeline burst in Battle Creek, Mich., near a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The cracked pipe leaked an estimated million gallons of oil into the water, and at the time, Enbridge Energy, the Canadian company that owns the pipe, promised a complete cleanup and rigorous More…
This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers More…
This morning, the Department of Labor said that initial jobless claims edged up last week, from 460,000 to 479,000. Economists expected the number of claims to decrease. The weekly figure is the highest since April.
This morning, the Labor Department announced that initial weekly jobless claims fell to 454,000. The number of people continuing to receive benefits fell to the lowest level in seven months, in large part due to Congress’ inability to renew federally extended benefits. The broader trend remains: Initial claims More…
This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims rose 12,000, to 472,000. Last week’s claims were revised upward, from 456,000 to 460,000. The claims were higher than economists’ estimates of around 456,000. Bloomberg notes:
Claims around 450,000 are consistent with private companies adding
This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims remained high, at 456,000. That is a decline of 3,000 from last week’s claim, upwardly revised to 459,000. The four-week average ticked up to 463,000. Economists had expected initial claims to fall to 450,000. I’ll repeat More…
This morning, the Department of Labor announced that new jobless claims decreased by 4,000 to 444,000. The four-week moving average declined to 450,000.
The slightly declining number, on one hand, is good news: Fewer Americans are reporting that they are out of work. But for the unemployment rate to More…
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