Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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We Need Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs
With
. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Exec. Dir., Ntl. Council of Negro Women
. Heidi Shierholz, labor market economist, Economic Policy Institute
. Catherine Singley, Policy Analyst, Economic Employment Project,
National Council of La Raza
Persistent high unemployment & lackluster job growth are having a profoundly damaging impact on millions in America. The Jobs Report for August documented 54,000 jobs lost and the unemployment rate increasing to 9.6%. The underemployment rate is 16.7 %. The ranks of the unemployed are continuing to swell. These adverse effects are not limited to the unlucky ones who have lost their jobs. This is also creating shock waves among those who are still employed, lowering wages and benefits. We are creating a new layer of poverty on top of the old for the foreseeable future unless we decide to make fighting unemployment priority job1 and implement a stimulus big enough to get that job done
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99ers Protest at Unemployment Demonstration
Heeding a call to put New Yorkers back to work, hundreds rallied at Federal Hall in lower Manhattan to build for the October 2nd One Nation Working Together Washington demonstration to demand that city, state and federal government representatives make getting people back to work their number one priority. Let’s go to the rally and hear what members of the United Workers Action Group, an organization of 99ers who have exhausted their 99 week limit on unemployment benefits, had to say.
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