As the city studies the impact of “living wages,” it’s unclear whether wounds have healed from a split last fall between trade and service workers’ unions.
The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful forces in the American economy. This City Limits web extra asks whether its policies help or hurt the black unemployed.
The lottery is more important than ever to state finances. But counselors and a lawmaker want more done to protect those who don’t have “a little bit of luck.”
In January and February the national unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent— lower than in late 2009. That was seen as a sign that the economy was rounding the…
In the lobby of STRIVE, an employment-training program in East Harlem, the messages are clear, stated in a bold, black font on posters that greet the overwhelmingly black and Latino…
In the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens on a slate gray Friday in February, the food pantry at St. Gertrude the Great was devoid of clients. The woman working there,…
With 15 percent of all black employees represented by unions nationwide, blacks are more likely to be organized than are white, Asian or Latino workers. And black men are more…
