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As Devastating Plant Shutdown Looms in West Virginia, National Outrage Is Hard to Find

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unions / By max cyril

A union set to be wiped out by layoffs says politicians are missing in action. Joe Gouzd is pissed. As the president of United Steelworkers Local 8?–?957 in Morgantown, West Virginia, he represents more than 800 of the 1,500 workers who are set to lose their jobs on July 31, when the Viatris pharmaceuticals plant in Morgantown shuts down for good. And …

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The Impact of Job Loss in Immigrant Communities During COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unemployment / By max cyril

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stark demonstration of the racist and xenophobic attitudes maintained at an institutional level. Job loss and rates of infection have disproportionately affected immigrant groups in the U.S. and other nations around the world. With these marginalized groups often being locked out of the aid resources meant to mitigate the …

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A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss

Coronavirus has upended many lives, but immigrant journalists on visas face a grim reality

Leave a Comment / foreign workers, layoffs / By max cyril

For Trey Taylor, moving to New York City was nothing short of a dream come true. The Canadian citizen had worked tirelessly for about two years to secure a work visa that allowed him to work freely within the country. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, the young journalist was unceremoniously terminated from his position …

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Job losses have now hit 40% of low-income homes

Leave a Comment / furloughs, layoffs / By max cyril

Thirteen percent of all U.S. adults, or 20 percent of people who were employed in February, were laid off or furloughed. One in five American workers lost their jobs in March, including almost 40 percent of those in lower-income households, according to a Federal Reserve survey, underscoring the staggering impact of the coronavirus crisis. The data …

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Economy Loses 20.5 Million Jobs in April; Unemployment Jumps to 14.7%

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

The U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April, taking payroll employment back to levels last seen in spring 2011 when the economy was recovering from the Great Recession, and the unemployment rate jumped by a historic amount to 14.7%, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate for white …

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‘Now, I’m Unemployed’: How Coronavirus Killed Off the Capitol Hill Internship

Leave a Comment / Unpaid Interns / By max cyril

They thought they were getting their foot in the door for a career in politics. Now, their internships have abruptly ended — and their ambitions are on hold. Congress’ frenzied effort to respond to the coronavirus crisis has been one of the most furious sessions of lawmaking in history. Just days after a congressional staffer …

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Seattle’s $15 minimum wage raised pay with zero effect on restaurant jobs, new study shows

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

Raising the minimum wage does not kill jobs, no matter what Republicans tell you—and a new study of the Seattle restaurant industry, where some businesses are already paying a $15 minimum wage, provides another data point showing just that. According to the University of California, Berkeley, study, the increased minimum wage had employment effects that were …

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The House GOP health care bill is a job killer, says a new report

Leave a Comment / health care, healthcare, Uncategorized / By max cyril

In addition to potentially increasing the number of uninsured by 23 million and being unequivocally unpopular, House Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plan could leave nearly a million people unemployed. That’s according to a new study published Wednesday by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and The Commonwealth Fund projects, which finds that the U.S. economy could …

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Five Groups of Americans Who’ll Get Shafted Under Trump’s Hiring Freeze

Leave a Comment / President Trump / By max cyril

Donald Trump, in what’s been hyped as an “unprecedented” move, has instituted a freeze on the hiring of federal employees. Hyperbole aside (it’s hardly unprecedented, since Ronald Reagan did the same thing on his first day in office), one thing is already clear: this will hurt a lot of people. Trump’s order exempts military personnel, …

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