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Latinos And The Good Jobs Crisis

Algernon Austin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Latinos, Poverty, Good Jobs, Income Inequality, Retirement, Wages, Health Insurance, Hispanics, Unions, Latino Voices News
Algernon Austin

If Latinos are to fully recover from the ravages of the Great Recession, they will need not simply jobs, but jobs that lead to increased earnings over time and that also have good benefits. In short, they will need what we call "good jobs."

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

'99 Percent' Protest CPAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Our Dc, Video, Cpac, Good Jobs, Cpac Protests, Cpac 2012, Protest, Protests, Cpac Protest, Occupy, Occupy Dc, Occupy Movement, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Conservative Political Action Conference drew crowds of protesters on Friday, as members of the Occupy Wall Street movement and labo...

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Rick Santorum Needs to Join Occupy Wall Street

Algernon Austin | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum 2012, Good Jobs, Economic Inequality, Marriage Rates, Occupy Wall Street, Rick Santorum, Politics News
Algernon Austin

Social conservatives, like Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, have looked just about everywhere for enemies to heterosexual marriage, but they have missed one place: the American economy.

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The False Choice: A Flexible Job or a Good Job?

Kathleen E. Christensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, The Balanced Life, Good Jobs, Workplace Flexibility, Working Mothers, Department of Labor, Working Moms, Business News
Kathleen E. Christensen

Every job, no matter how demanding or challenging, can be tweaked to make it more flexible.

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What Kind of Capitalism?

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Unemployment, Wall Street, Good Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Bank Reform, President Barack Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Shared Prosperity, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Capitalism, Health Care, Unions, American Prospect, Politics News
Peter Dreier

We are surely at a crossroads. Like the choices facing America during the Great Depression, we need to rescue capitalism again. But what kind of capitalism will best serve the most people?

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Employers Struggling To Fill Jobs That Pay $55,000-$60,000 Per Year

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nursing, Unemployment, Good Jobs, Economy, Energy Research, Jobs, Job Training, Recession, Engineering, Recruiters, Business News

In a brutal job market, here's a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus b...

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American Job Satisfaction: Only 45% Of Workers Are Satisfied In Their Jobs (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Satisfaction, Unemployment, Good Jobs, Best Jobs, Job Happiness, Bad Jobs, Human Capital, Conference Board, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- We can't get no job satisfaction. Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy wit...

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7 Facebook Status Updates Not to Make at Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Business, Facebook, Social Networking, Work, Bad Bosses, Blackberry, Social-Faux-Pas, Employees, Social Networking Addiction, Social Networking Sites, Good-Jobs, Lousy-Bosses, Ferris Bueller, Internet Politics, Facebook Status, Facebook Addiction, Crazy Bosses, Workplace Taboos, Healthy Living News
Nicole Williams

It's great if you have a fabulous job where you get to travel, get chauffeured around in fancy cars, and take meetings with bigwigs. But it's a lot cooler if you don't broadcast it.

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What Working Mothers Needed this Mother's Day

Beth Shulman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women Workers, Good Jobs, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Economy, Politics News
Beth Shulman

It is imperative that we think of solutions to make the middle class dream possible for working mothers once again.

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