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Tempel Grain Charged $1.6 Million For Youth's Death

Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: US Labor Department, Cody Rigsby, Child Labor, Tempel Grain, Grain Elevator, Buried Alive, Kelly Spitzer, Osha, Denver News

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division has fined Tempel Grain Elevators more than $1.6 m...

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Former Voice Of America Official Tied To Abramoff Indicted On Corruption Charges

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, U.S. Labor Department, Dick Armey, Jack Abramoff, Voice of America, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A former top official for Voice of America was indicted Friday on corruption charges, accused of taking thousands of dollars in con...

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July Job Losses Down Significantly. Republicans Accuse Nation's Employers of Conspiring to Make Obama Look Good

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, President Obama, July Job Losses, Bill Bennett, George W. Bush, Business News
Andy Ostroy

Like other leading economic indicators that have shown consistent improvement this year, the jobs market is nearing a bottom. Do you think Republicans are giving the president any credit for this marked improvement?

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$500M In Grants Available For Green Job Training

greenbiz.com | Leslie Guevarra | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, Green Jobs, Climate Change, Labor Department, Environment, Green, Green News

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Grant competitions opened today for $500 million in Recovery Act funds for training programs that will help retool the U.S. workfor...

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A Mindless Meld of "Star Trek" and the New Unemployment Rate

Dave Astor | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, DeForest Kelley, President Obama, William Shatner, Phasers, Jobs, Captain Sisko, Captain Janeway, Joblessness, Captain Archer, Star Trek, Loss of 539, Avery Brooks, Unemployment, Space-Time Continuum, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Mr. Spock, Trekkies, The Inner Light, Leonard Nimoy, Blogging, Captain Picard, Enterprise, Kate Mulgrew, Ricardo Montalban, Scott Bakula, The Wrath of Khan, Starfleet, Baby and Child Care, Barack Obama, Layoffs, Captain Crunch, Bones McCoy, Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart, Vulcan, Comedy News
Dave Astor

The U.S. Labor Department announced Friday that 539,000 people lost their jobs last month -- a dreadful total, but not as high as the 600,000-plus axed in March. Here are three reasons why the unemployment increase got slightly less awful...

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Tribune Co. Discloses Government Probe Into Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Los Angeles Times | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribune, US Labor Department, Tribune Company, Sam Zell, Media News

Tribune Co. has disclosed that the U.S. Department of Labor has opened an investigation into the company's employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. Th...

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Unemployment soars to 8.5 pct.; 13 million jobless

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs Labor Department, Layoffs Rise, Layoffs, U.S. Labor Department, Layoff Numbers, Labor Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — Unemployment zoomed to 8.5 percent last month, the highest in a quarter-century, as employers axed 663,000 more workers and pushed ...

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Bush's Midnight Regulations Value Profits More Than People

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Public Citizen, Greenhouse Gas, George W. Bush, Regulation, National Marine Fisheries Service, Beryllium, Afl-Cio, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Midnight Regulations, Charlie Gibson, Silica, Gao, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ABC News, President Bush, Government Accountability Office, Worker Exposure to Toxic Materials, Labor Regulations, Worker Safety, Osha, Labor Rights, Workers' Rights, Truck Driving Regulations, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The legacy of George W. Bush's final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people.

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Deregulation Defrauds Americans

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Gregory D. Kutz, U.S. Labor Department, Ronald Reagan, Economy, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, United Steelworkers, Freddie Mac, Bush Administration, Washington Post Columnist E. J. Dionne Jr., Ben S. Bernanke, U.S. Congress, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Gao, Bear Stearns, U.S. Rep. George Miller, Indymac Bancorp, Government Accountability Office, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.

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