June 2023 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 3.6%* [ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.1% African American 6.0% Hispanic 4.3% Asian¹ 3.2% Persons with a disability¹ 6.8% Men 20 years and over 3.4% Women 20 years and over 3.1% Teens (16-19 years) 11.0%… Read More Unemployment Data-JUNE 2023
May 2023 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 3.7%* [ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.3% African American 5.6% Hispanic 4.0% Asian¹ 2.9% Persons with a disability¹ 7.8% Men 20 years and over 3.5% Women 20 years and over 3.3% Teens (16-19 years) 10.3%… Read More Unemployment Data-MAY 2023
March 2023 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 3.5%*[ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.2% African American 5.0% Hispanic 4.6% Asian¹ 2.8% Persons with a disability¹ 8.2% Men 20 years and over 3.4% Women 20 years and over 3.1% Teens (16-19 years) 9.8% Black… Read More Unemployment Data–MARCH 2023
By GREGORY N. HEIRES An environmental activist group has included the federal jobs guarantee as a key component of its national campaign to address the climate crisis. The Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal includes a call for investing $10 trillion to create 15 million jobs over 10 years. In March,… Read More Sunrise Movement: Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Hallie Flanagan, Director of the FTP Flanagan on CBS Radio for the Federal Theatre of the Air, 1936. Courtesy, Wikipedia Commons. By TRUDY GOLDBERG and SHEILA COLLINS A brief but spectacular achievement, the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project (FTP) (1936-1939) provided jobs for some 13,000 destitute people at its height and created and produced 63,600… Read More The WPA’s Federal Theatre: Creating Jobs and Creative Achievement