Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with unemployment www.salem-news.com 2013 At the direction of the Obama Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) the National Park Service has revoked the permit of the ANSWER Coalition to hold a large scale Speak-out of America’s Unemployed for Jobs and Justice in Freedom Plaza. It was set to happen during the Inauguration Day events on January 21, 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/answer-refused.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/answer-refused.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:20:00 PST Derrick Forestier was an Army Sergeant First Class who served 24 years in active duty, was deployed five times and served in combat three times. He received many awards for his service, including the Bronze Star, and was terminated under dispute from his job with North American Salt Company. http://salem-news.com/articles/november152012/steelworkers-veteran.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november152012/steelworkers-veteran.php Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:14:00 PST The state of the economy remains an enigma. The most consistent constant is: Worry. Thrust into this sea of turmoil and skepticism is the job hunter. In many occupations, the field is not very fertile. It's been deteriorating to a drought. http://salem-news.com/articles/october242012/hiring-today-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october242012/hiring-today-blc.php Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:46:00 PDT We were told that the vast amounts of stimulus monies that had been set aside and earmarked were to be dedicated to bringing our economy back from the brink. Why are these funds being spent to help Chinese industries and to provide jobs to Chinese workers when U.S. industries are hurting so badly and U.S. workers are losing their homes? http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/chinese-workers-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/chinese-workers-bc.php Thu, 03 May 2012 11:30:00 PDT Senate Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum and community advocates will join Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber this afternoon for a bill signing ceremony on Senate Bill 1548. The legislation makes Oregon the second state in the nation to prohibit discrimination against the unemployed in job announcements. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292012/job-discrimination.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292012/job-discrimination.php Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:13:00 PDT A new study reconfirms what many people know from first-hand experience: Mexican workers' purchasing power has plummeted since the turn of the century. According to the analysis, Mexican workers earning the daily minimum wage had to toil 11.38 hours in December 2011 to buy a basic basket of commodities... http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:00 PST Monday, Occupy Oakland and labor organizations have called a demonstration to protest the use of armed Coast Guard cutters and helicopters to escort a ship into the port of Longview, Washington to load grain from the EGT terminal. The terminal is being picketed by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)... this is a struggle for their survival. http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/ilwu-military-ko.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/ilwu-military-ko.php Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:35:00 PST A new Quarterly Economic Commentary report published by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland estimates that with the eurozone crisis continuing to cast a shadow over any possible Irish economic recovery, tens of thousands will continue to emigrate from the country in 2012. “The financial crisis currently gripping the eurozone, coupled with tightening fiscal policy across the region, are likely to send the eurozone back into recession,” the report reads. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/irish-emigration.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/irish-emigration.php Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:27:00 PST Construction employment declined in 146 out of 337 metropolitan areas between October 2010 and October 2011, increased in 140 and stayed level in 51, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. It was noted that many communities continue to lose construction jobs even as a federal program to invest in highway, transit and other infrastructure construction have been stalled in Congress for years. http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/const-jobs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/const-jobs.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:49:00 PST "Of all the industries hammered by the economic downturn, construction has been among the hardest hit. Since the housing bubble burst, millions of construction workers have had to look for a job. "So today, I’m joining many of these workers to say that it makes absolutely no sense when there’s so much work to be done that they’re not doing the work. (Applause.) Not when there are so many roads and bridges and runways waiting to be repaired and waiting to be rebuilt..." http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/jobs-act.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/jobs-act.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:45:00 PDT The year 1848 is noted for the revolutions that swept across much of Europe. Historians in the future may write of the revolutions of 2011. What started as a popular revolt in Tunisia in late 2010 and spread throughout the Arab world has now gone world wide as people gather everywhere to protest the current order. http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/revolution-2012.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/revolution-2012.php Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:41:00 PDT We hear a lot these days about the need for “shovel ready jobs” and the lack of them. For those who want answers, not excuses, let’s visit some of the places where job preventers work. First stop: The home of the President of the United States and his Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. This group steals more jobs and wealth in one week than a corporate jet full of greedy bankers in a lifetime. http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:55:00 PDT As we celebrate Labor Day today, it seems appropriate to do a cursory review of the changes that have taken place for labor in our country since its founding and of where we are today. The earliest settlements established groups that were primarily concerned with survival. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/labor-value-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/labor-value-bc.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:13:00 PDT As we all now know, the United States is in economic and political turmoil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 9.5 percent in August, partly because of concern about the health of the U.S. and European economies. What we need now is jobs, jobs, jobs. And not just low-paying jobs that are unlikely to provide sufficient wages to live on. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/economic-woes-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/economic-woes-rs.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:22:00 PDT When I leave a restaurant, in addition to leaving a generous tip, I silently thank everyone working there for giving me money. They hadn’t given me money directly of course, but they did indirectly, in that they are not paid a living wage which is reflected in lower meal costs. In other words they paid for part of my meal. The standard rebuttal from restaurant owners is that they would “like” to pay their people more, but in order to remain competitive they have to cut costs as much as possible. http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/living_wages_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/living_wages_dj.php Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:45:00 PDT Contractors suffered from a new round of price increases for key materials in May but were largely unable to pass their costs along to customers, according to an analysis of producer price index figures released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. The ongoing cost squeeze is blamed on a sluggish demand for construction... http://salem-news.com/articles/june142011/construction-sag.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142011/construction-sag.php Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:31:00 PDT Thousands of residents of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, including hundreds of children, have been peacefully lying on the ground in the searing heat to protect their homes, lands and livelihoods as the police continue to enter their lands by force. Serious questions remain concerning the clearance granted to acquire the land of the villagers. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/india-police.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/india-police.php Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:02:00 PDT The $1,202,614,324,202 dollar cost to date and counting, for the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan is the low estimate, or rather the literal cost. This does not include the cost of borrowing that money, or the cost of 5 or 6 decades of medical care and disability pensions for several hundred thousand American soldiers. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/taxpayers-raked-dm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/taxpayers-raked-dm.php Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:44:00 PDT The shipping of goods across the US-Mexico border is back on a brisk track. But employment opportunities on both sides of the international line are still not keeping pace with the so-called economic recovery. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/us-jobs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/us-jobs.php Thu, 12 May 2011 16:31:00 PDT The United States is the richest nation on the planet and yet we find ourselves mired in a long-term recovery from the Great Recession of 2008. The biggest problem affecting the greatest number of Americans is the high unemployment rate, which is not expected to return to pre-recession levels for many years. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/solving-unemployment-jpb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/solving-unemployment-jpb.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:58:00 PDT Employment in Ciudad Juarez’s bedrock maquiladora industry is recovering at a much slower pace than elsewhere in Mexico. Of 164,590 new jobs created in the assembly-for-export industry during 2010, only 10,271 were located in Ciudad Juarez. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/ciudad-workers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/ciudad-workers.php Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:16:00 PDT Did you hear about Oregon's whopping spending increase for a subsidized housing program? Chances are you didn't, because this spending program -- the home mortgage interest deduction -- exists in the shadows of the tax code. Its results are not something legislators can brag about. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252011/cost-homes-cs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252011/cost-homes-cs.php Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:44:00 PST Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement on the House of Representatives-passed resolution to fund government operations through September: “When I travel across Oregon, everywhere I go, the top priority is job creation. With one in ten Oregonians still out of work, we need to make smart investments in our communities so businesses can get their feet under them and hire more people." http://salem-news.com/articles/february192011/job-bill.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192011/job-bill.php Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:04:00 PST According to U.S. Census data released this week, homeownership rates have dropped to their lowest level since 1998. Homeownership rates for Hispanics, African Americans and Native Americans have dropped more severely than for whites (2010 data for Asian Americans have not yet been reported). http://salem-news.com/articles/february022011/home-discrimination.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022011/home-discrimination.php Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:21:00 PST I am 64 years old and up until 5 years ago, I never bought or owned a car that was not American made. Then, not quite 5 years ago, I changed. Here is why: I listened to the story from American manufacturers to “buy American and keep our country strong”. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292011/lala-land-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292011/lala-land-bc.php Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:04:00 PST The Salem NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) has new officers and the change could represent a brighter future for people here who are faced with challenges due to the color of their skin. Among those in attendance were four local men with law enforcement backgrounds, who are all Black, with fairly amazing stories of what they perceive as racially charged justice. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252011/naacp-salem-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252011/naacp-salem-tk.php Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:30:00 PST Sen. Jeff Merkley is backing a request arbitration with Canada under the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement over the under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in BC. “Canada has a formal trade agreement with the United States, but our friends to the North continue to ignore their responsibility by subsidizing Canadian softwood lumber exports,” said Merkley. http://salem-news.com/articles/january182011/canada-lumber.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january182011/canada-lumber.php Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:57:00 PST Tucson, gunfire in the streets, a member of congress set for public execution, the proverbial bullet to the back of the head. Victim two, for good measure, a federal judge, his life threatened hundreds of times, dead. The collateral damage, regular people, let’s be honest, “little people” no consequence to the press, nothing special, simple “window dressing.” http://salem-news.com/articles/january102011/revolt-underclass-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january102011/revolt-underclass-pl.php Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:11:00 PST It’s called whistling past the graveyard—something the majority of Americans are now doing. They think, hope, they can escape the imminent conflagration. The unraveling of America has begun in earnest. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), 42 percent of American children live in low-income homes and about a fifth live in poverty. http://salem-news.com/articles/january062011/2nd-civil-war-dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january062011/2nd-civil-war-dj.php Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:03:00 PST In eras past, doctors routinely bled patients in an effort to cure them. Fortunately, the medical profession eventually recognized that bloodletting actually made patients worse. In the field of economic policy, however, an idea akin to bloodletting retains faithful adherents. http://salem-news.com/articles/december202010/oregon-taxes-cs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december202010/oregon-taxes-cs.php Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:13:00 PST