Observed on the first Monday of each September, Labor Day is a U.S. Federal holiday which recognizes trade and labor organizations and marks the unofficial end of Summer.
The Golden State's July 2010 unemployment numbers came out in a report by California's Employment Development Department Friday, and they don't look good.
There’s a very real unraveling of the “rules of the road” these days, and it’s likely to cause a re-assessment of many aspects of our lives. Among the symbols of this deconstruction of society as we have known it are the housing bust and its resultant reduction in local and regional tax revenues, the prospects of de-inflation and the imposition of minimum wage on thousands of state
In the aftermath of the Senate primary last month, it has fast become a conventional media narrative to paint Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina as a conservative’s conservative, with doctrinaire responses down the line on issues – responses which are allegedly drawn straight from the Rush Limbaugh-Sarah Palin-Ann Coulter school of Republicanism, with nothing that would complicate the th
Unbelievably, California is not only facing a $20 billion deficit for the 2010-2011 budget, the state Employment Development Department just forecasted a $20 billion deficit in the Unemployment Insurance Fund by the end of 2011, up from $6.2 billion in 2009.
The California Jobs Initiative has submitted over 800,000 signatures, more than twice as many as needed to be on the ballot in November. It seeks, in effect, to overturn the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB32) by suspending it unless California unemployment is less than 5.5% for four consecutive quarters, something which rarely happens.
A significant – and often overlooked -- result of what’s been dubbed the Great Recession is that in just over half of the 50 states, the programs that pay unemployment insurance to workers who’ve lost their jobs are insolvent, leading states to borrow more than $39 billion from the federal government to keep writing checks.
Hear me out first, before you excoriate me. I'm not a big fan of Senator Bunning, but I think he may have it right on taking a stand against yet another extension of unemployment benefits. It's undeniably true that we're still stuck in a deep recession, and it's very sad that millions of Americans remain out of work. But, there's another, legitimate consideration that is being
The question of whether it’s better to share the pain of state budget reductions through furloughs or go cold turkey with layoffs will soon be in the hands of California’s highest courts. But for the lives of hundreds of thousands of state workers, it’s more than just a legal matter. Some California employees have seen their salaries decreased by as much as 15 percent because of fur
Many in this nation are growing increasingly concerned about the national debt and foreign policy of the United States. As a result, CAIVN would like to share a portion of Marcy Winograd's recent press release in order to stimulate debate and discussion. Here is the abridged version:
