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Economic and Workforce Development

  • Press Release on Passage of American Clean Energy Security Act (June 29, 2009)
  • Blind to the Plight of Domestic Workers (op-ed) (June 19, 2009)
  • Obama Plan Removes Hurdles to Training for Jobless Workers (May 08, 2009)
  • Counselors Get Help to Give Help to the Jobless (April 05, 2009)
  • Rebuilding a Good Jobs Economy (March 12, 2009)
  • Millions of Jobless Workers to Get Critical Aid in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (February 13, 2009)
  • Panel on the U.S. Economy and Young Adults [video] (May 09, 2008)
  • Making Growth Work for All New Yorkers (May 06, 2007)
  • Chicago Retail Living Wage Narrowly Defeated (September 11, 2006)
  • Prices Versus Wages: A False Dichotomy (August 12, 2006)
  • Living Wage for Retail Workers Passes in Chicago (July 26, 2006)
  • How Large Retail Can Be Neighborly (July 24, 2006)
  • Legal Experts Defend Chicago Living Wage (July 23, 2006)
  • Court Rejects Wal-Mart and Target Legal Argument (July 19, 2006)
  • Chicago Retail Living Wage Moves Forward (June 22, 2006)
  • Wal-Mart Epitomizes the Crisis of Work (November 18, 2005)
  • Hartford Passes “Big Box” Public Access Law (December 12, 2004)
  • Chicago City Council Hears Retail Living Wage (September 20, 2004)
  • Groups Propose Chicago Retail Living Wage (July 20, 2004)
  • Wal-Mart Makes Workers Pay (October 29, 2003)

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