Articles written by Frederick H Lowe

Frederick H Lowe, North Star News|Dec 10, 2012

The nation's labor market would lose more than 400,000 jobs in 2013 if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to reach an agreement preventing unemployment-benefit extensions from expiring, reports the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Federally funded unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire in December 2012. Exhaustion of the benefits would have a devastating effect on unemployed African-American workers because they suffer from the highest jobless rate among all major worker groups, which include whites,...