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Workers Want a Green Economy, Not a Dirty Environment

Leave a Comment / Green jobs / By max cyril

To justify withdrawing from the Paris climate change accord, President Trump said during his press conference yesterday, “I was elected to represent the city of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” From terrible experience, Pittsburghers know about pollution. Before Pittsburgh’s renaissance, the streetlights Downtown frequently glowed at noon to illuminate sidewalks through the darkness of smoke and soot …

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Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

“Can Coal Make a Comeback?” asks a new report by Columbia University researchers. Spoiler alert: In its first few pages, the report states that President Donald Trump will almost certainly fail to bring jobs back to coal country or dramatically boost coal production. Rolling back environmental regulations, as the Trump administration frantically sought to do during its …

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This week in the war on workers: Self-driving cars will kill a lot of jobs. What then?

The Economy Adds 227,000 Jobs in January, and Unemployment Little Changed at 4.8%

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January in the last employment report of the the Barack Obama administration. Unemployment was little changed at 4.8%, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. President Donald Trump is inheriting a relatively strong economy based on years of work that Barack Obama and his administration …

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Jobs Report: Change Still Needed

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

The June jobs report – a cheery 287,000 new jobs, with unemployment ticking up to 4.9 percent – is cause for both relief and concern. The relief is that jobs creation picked up after the slowdown of April (revised upward to 144,000) and May (revised downward to 11,000). Even subtracting the 35,000 jobs “created” by …

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Does Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Affect What People Here Get Paid?

On Equal Pay Day, We Could Use Some Sunshine

Another Explanation Why Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Is ‘Good’ For Us

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

On Monday, yet another “elite” pundit tells us that moving our jobs and factories and manufacturing ecosystem out of the country is good for us. This time it is Neil Irwin writing at the New York Times’ Upshot, “The Trade Deficit Isn’t a Scorecard, and Cutting It Won’t Make America Great Again.” The U.S. has …

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When a Coin Drops in Asia, Jobs Disappear in Detroit

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Last year, free trade hammered Michigan’s 11th Congressional District, located between Detroit and Flint, killing manufacturing, costing jobs and crushing dreams. It’s not over, either. Another 11th District company, ViSalus Inc., told the state it would eliminate 87 jobs as of last Saturday, slicing its staff by nearly 400 since 2013 when ViSalus was the …

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The Economy Adds 242,000 Jobs in February, and Unemployment Remains Unchanged at 4.9%

Leave a Comment / Employment / By max cyril

The U.S. economy added 242,000 jobs in February and unemployment was 4.9%, unchanged from January, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This continues the record string of months with job growth. In response to the February jobs numbers, AFL-CIO Chief Economist William Spriggs tweeted the following: Last month’s biggest job gains …

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Workers Want a Green Economy, Not a Dirty Environment

Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says

This week in the war on workers: Self-driving cars will kill a lot of jobs. What then?

The Economy Adds 227,000 Jobs in January, and Unemployment Little Changed at 4.8%

Jobs Report: Change Still Needed

Does Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Affect What People Here Get Paid?

On Equal Pay Day, We Could Use Some Sunshine

Another Explanation Why Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Is ‘Good’ For Us

When a Coin Drops in Asia, Jobs Disappear in Detroit

The Economy Adds 242,000 Jobs in February, and Unemployment Remains Unchanged at 4.9%

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