“Work It” and the “Man-cession”

“Work It,” an ABC sitcom about two unemployed buddies (a car salesman and a mechanic), who dress in drag in order to land jobs as pharmaceutical sales reps, premiered on Tuesday night. According ...Read More

Extend Unemployment Benefits, But Don’t Stop There

Nearly 2 million Americans will see their unemployment benefits expire in January if Congress doesn’t act to renew them. Some 430,000 of these workers lost their jobs as recently as July. An extension ...Read More

Public Sector Meltdown Hits Black Women the Hardest

Middle-class black Americans are among those hardest hit by the recession, in part because they were more likely to be employed in public sector jobs, the New York Times reported on Tuesday: Though ...Read More

NEWS BRIEF: Today, Nurses Rally Around the World for Economic Justice

Nurses say they are fed up with seeing patients and communities strapped for cash and struggling to survive. So nurses’ unions around the globe are staging demonstrations today in favor of policies ...Read More

The Women of OccupyLA Speak Out About Hard Times

Democracy is not easy, says Occupy Los Angeles on its website. It requires work and dedication. Most Americans believe that America is on the wrong track, and, for the most part, our representatives ...Read More

Poverty in the U.S.: Do the Math

For the first time in many years, poverty is news again. Newspaper headlines, television report and the blogosphere have reacted to the latest Census Bureau report showing that U.S. poverty increased last ...Read More

President’s Job Plan Benefits Women

The president’s job plan would have a positive impact on women’s jobs, woman-owned small businesses and small- to medium-sized non-profits. It also includes payroll tax savings for some 78 million ...Read More

The Care Crisis

Job creation is the word of the day. In his speech on Thursday night, President Obama outlined his proposal to reinvigorate a stagnating economy. It included a mix of tax cuts, aid to small businesses, ...Read More

Stop the Cuts, Invest in Women; Our Futures Depend on It

Women are the majority of Americans living at or below the poverty level. Deeper cuts in our federal safety net programs–Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Care and Family Planning–will ...Read More

A Recession for White Americans, A Depression for Black and Latino Americans

A new study from the Pew Research Center reports staggering gaps in median wealth–a person’s accumulated assets minus her debt–between whites ($113,149), blacks ($5,677) and Latinos ...Read More

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