Articles

• Author: Mary Singleton
• Posted: 2024-04-24

There are a lot of adjectives that one may use to describe the polarizing nature of America’s politics, with “weird” being chief among them. For a large portion of the nation, it’s not about what a pol...

• Author: Jessica Williams
• Posted: 2024-02-11

May and June were record months for the United States in terms of job growth. After losing nearly 30 million jobs in March and April due to the novel Coronavirus and the economic shut downs all across America, most experts had ...

• Author: Jessica Williams
• Posted: 2024-01-05

The United States Department of Labor lists the fastest growing occupations for the fourth quarter of 2020. The Department of Labor website tells you the education and the amount of training required for every ...

• Author: Michael Bordonada
• Posted: 2024-04-10

With many businesses temporarily or permanently closed due to COVID, the nation has been facing record high unemployment rates. Those in the service industry have been hit especially hard, as restaurants, shops...

• Author: Jeffrey Simmons
• Posted: 2024-01-30

Across the United States, millions of low-wage workers have no access to paid sick leave. Most of these workers are in so-called "right-to-work" states. This means that their employer can fire them for any rea...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2024-02-28

A new school year is about to begin, and working parents find themselves with an impossible choice. That choice is to send the kids to in-person school, which puts the youngsters, their teachers and themselves ...

• Author: Kelly Cooke
• Posted: 2024-04-13

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected nearly everyone on some level. One of the hardest-hit groups of people is recent college graduates. Dreams of landing that perfect job were dashed when the health...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2023-11-13

Many people have been told by their jobs that they should plan on working remotely for the extended future. Some companies may reevaluate the need for office space as employees have proven that they coul...

• Author: Kelly Cooke
• Posted: 2024-03-05

The employment world has been turned upside down in recent months as a result of the devastating COVID-19 global pandemic. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs because of the economic shutdown, r...

• Author: William Asher
• Posted: 2024-04-22

Many have taken to celebrating the monthly job report numbers as if an unemployment rate above 11% is something about which to get excited. Placed in context, the peak unemployment at the depth of the Great Recession was right aro...