The economic status of Black Americans hasn’t changed since the Fed was handed its mandate in 1977. Could targeting Black unemployment, encouraging credit and reporting discrepancies narrow the gap?
The $600 federal jobless benefit expired on July 31.
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Several economists predict joblessness will eventually surpass the 25% rate experienced in 1933.
Statistics Canada reports that more than one million Canadians lost their job in the first month of the coronavirus pandemic, but the official figures don’t reflect the true impact on workers.
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The difficulty governments have had in meeting the needs of Canadian workers impacted by the coronavirus crisis has exposed holes in our social safety net and the inadequacy of existing labour laws.
Unemployed people wait outside a government office in NYC in 1933.
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Some economists are predicting joblessness to surpass the record level experienced at the height of the Great Depression as 22 million people file for unemployment benefits.
Supporting and empowering jobseekers has better results than the current “economic” approaches used by jobcentres up and down the country.
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Western perceptions of what’s happening in Tunisia differ sharply with Tunisia’s daily reality: the truth is that its political transformation is in trouble.
The latest claim that job-seekers are actively snubbing work opportunities flies in the face of research.
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An economist explains why the long-term drop in the participate rate is an even bigger problem for the US economy than the May slowdown in jobs growth.
Australia’s unemployment rate is at what would once been regarded as full employment. But that doesn’t mean it can’t fall further.
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