West Virginia can draw down $22 million in Recovery Act funds if it changes its unemployment insurance system,which was designed in the 1930s, to reflect the modern workforce.
 Specifically, we can receive the money if we extend eligibility to people seeking only part-time work and to people who had to leave work due to domestic violence, [...]

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If you don’t remember N.A.F.T.A, let me remind you what it is . It was the North American Free Trade Agreement. It was suppose to be the greatest thing that ever hit us. But we came to find out that a little man who looked like a chicken, Mr.Ross Perot (spelling might be wrong)came and [...]

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 What was originally HB 4343 has been incorporated into House Concurrent Resolution No. 58. Most of the language from HB 4343 creating Labor History Week in West Virginia has been incorporated into the Resolution, and the only major difference between HB4343 and the Resolution is the curriculum requirements for the pub…lic schools will be encouraged [...]

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A Seattle woman claims the Work First welfare program violates her right against “involuntary servitude.”  She is suing the state under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over the practices of the Work First program, KING-TV, Seattle, reported Thursday.
“Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime … shall exist within the United [...]

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S Dawg is an organizer who will be keeping up on poverty issues and on low wage worker issues and i promise too keep u informed.

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