Russ McBee

A Rutgers University study has been released that paints a somber picture for American workers: In its first national labor scorecard, the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations said more than 10 percent of Americans are unemployed, discouraged from seeking work or underemployed. That is a nearly 25-percent increase from one year ...

Not surprisingly, Republican Fred Thompson wants to do away with Social Security and replace it with a privatized system which would benefit those in the upper income brackets and penalize the poor and middle class: Thompson's plan draws on ideas favored by conservatives: a reduction in benefits, rather than an increase in payroll taxes; and a ...

One of the flashpoint issues of the 1965 Watts riot was the lack of a hospital in that inner-city LA district. As a result of the riots, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was built. Its recent failures of care and performance have made headlines; to make the headlines go away, the hospital has been shut down rather than being fixed. Now, ...

Since 2001, unfettered trade with China has directly resulted in the loss of 1.8 million US jobs, and they won't be coming back: Contrary to the predictions of its supporters, China's entry into the WTO has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or increase overall U.S. employment, according to the report, ''Costly Trade with ...