by Stephen Koppekin | Dec 27, 2017 | History of Labor Laws, Labor Laws, Organized Labor, Political Climate, Stephen Koppekin
Crippling unemployment, low wages, and labor uncertainty characterized workers’ lives during the torturous years of the Great Depression. Although President Franklin. D Roosevelt’s New Deal created jobs and relief programs for millions of Americans, by 1940, the...
by Stephen Koppekin | Aug 1, 2017 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Stephen Koppekin
In July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy picked up over 209,000 jobs. Initially, predictions had only called for 180,000 new jobs, so the actual figures were a pleasant surprise for many: For a nation nearly crippled by an unemployment...
