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• What You Need to Know About the State of Urban Jobs
  Urban unemployment continues to plague our communities and hamper our progress.  Our State of Urban Jobs site at iamempowered.com gives you everything you need to know about jobs including the monthly employment report with job stats for Blacks, Whites and Latinos, the facts about how investing in job creation is the best strategy for reducing [...]
  
  
• What You Need to Know About the State of Urban Jobs!
  via National Urban League Urban unemployment continues to plague our communities and hamper our progress.  Our State of Urban Jobs site at iamempowered.com gives you everything you need to know about jobs including the monthly employment report with job stats for Blacks, Whites and Latinos, the facts about how investing in [...]
  
  
• Soon it’ll again be the voters’ turn to ‘Bite Back’
  By: Leo Hindery, Jr. Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation September 7, 2010 09:40 AM In November 2008 there were 23.1 million unemployed Americans in all four categories of unemployment – the “officially” counted and millions more intentionally uncounted. These beleaguered workers substantially influenced the election outcomes for the Presidency and in the House [...]
  
  
• Bob Herbert believes President Obama is rising to the occasion
  Rising to the Occasion By: Bob Herbert, September 6, 2010, The New York Times On Labor Day afternoon in Milwaukee, President Obama finally began to vigorously push the kind of high-profile, rebuild-America infrastructure campaign that is absolutely essential if there is to be any real hope of putting Americans back to work & getting the economy back [...]
  
  
• I AM VOTING
  Mark your calendars. On November 2nd, the politicians who delayed, diminished and denied help for the jobless must face thousands if not millions, of very angry voters. The politicians hope we’ve forgotten how they added insults to injury, how the harmed our families, how they stole our future. But we haven’t. We won’t. And here’s why: I [...]