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Unemployment is Draining the Economy

July 21, 2011By Stephanie West The recent national recession led to record high levels of unemployed workers receiving unemployment insurance benefits. As a result, since 2009 New York State has

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Allstate Group Votes on Union Affiliation

July 20, 2011By Stephanie West Gulfport, MS – Tired of being controlled as employees and defined as independent contractors, members of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents, Inc. (NAPAA),

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CityTime Fraud Tab Now $600 Million

July 18, 2011By Public Employee Press – DC 37 AFSCME
The arrests keep coming, and it’s not just a few “bad apples” at CityTime.

 Virtually all of the $600 million the

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NYC Growth

July 12, 2011 The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing that wages in NYC are not growing as much as they are in the rest of the country,

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U.S. Economy in Slowdown

July 12, 2011By Stephanie West Only a net of 18,000 jobs were created in June, while the unemployment rate inched up to 9.2 percent from 9.1 percent in May. The

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