Economic Security
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Unemployment benefits, jobs and foreign companies
Congress extends federal unemployment benefits, and how foreign companies are providing jobs for Americans.
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What Starbucks says about America
There may be a parable in the meteoric rise of Starbucks Coffee shops and America....
Learning from Germany's job strategy
Subsidizing worker pay and parental leave, and collective payroll are some of ways Germany is helping its workers keep an income....
Manual work in the information economy
The role of manual labor in the information economy, and why Matthew Crawford thinks if you really want to use your brains, try the trades....
More women working than men
For the first time in the US, more women will be working than men, but they're still not earning the same amount of pay. ...
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on state of small businesses
Secretary Locke says small and minority-owned businesses among first to recover from economic downturn....
Worker productivity up, along with wage violations
Recent productivity numbers better news for corporations than workers, as report shows surge in wage and workplace violations....
The end of the American dream?
A new report by the William C. Velasquez Institute details the effect the housing crisis has had on blacks and Latinos....
North Dakota and the global economy
North Dakota's farmers and agriculture businesses position themselves to take on the global economy....
