Unemployment Resources
Working America, the community affiliate of the Oregon AFL-CIO, wants to make sure you can find all the resources you need if you become unemployed. Go to www.unemploymentlifeline.com to find out where you can get help, what resources are available, where people are finding jobs, and to connect with other unemployed Oregonians to see what they’re doing to get by. While you’re there sign up for Working America to make sure you get up-to-the minutes updates about what we’re doing to help get you back to work in a good job!
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Playing Chicken with Our Economic Recovery
DECEMBER 20th, 2011 | Congress stands at the crossroads of yet another Federal shutdown, the third this year. If we were waiting for a clear indication that we need to more Representatives in Washington who will put working families and the middle class first, this is it. Partisan bickering keeps the real leaders on both sides of the aisle, who are ready to fight for the 99% of us who work for a living, doing their jobs.
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Breaking Down Wealth Inequality
NOVEMBER 30th, 2011 | Occupy Wall Street has rippled across the country leaving a wake of activism and protest in nearly every state and wide-scale demonstrations teeming in over 20 major North American cities. The message is clear: we are the 99%. We work the jobs, we pay the bills and we’re tired of the 1% keeping all of the profits.
