Tagged unemployment

On Labor Day and Jewish values
September 3, 2012 / Stuart Appelbaum, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — When Congress declared Labor Day a public holiday in 1894, workers had more to lament than to celebrate: an economic depression, a growing concentration of corporate wealth and power, and the brutal suppression of their unions. A momentous national railroad strike to protest deep wage… Read more »

Op-Ed: Keep the SNAP aid program strong
April 6, 2012 / Steve Gutow and Abby Leibman, JTA

(JTA) — A well-known D.C. maxim advises that any economic stimulus must be timely, targeted and temporary. So as legislators begin drafting the 2012 Farm Bill, why are some proposing to cut a program that responds in direct relation to need, supports recipients for an average of just nine… Read more »