Press Release Archive (Page 90 )

  • Low-Skill Employees Still Suffering Difficult Labor Market: High School dropouts face exceptionally high unemployment rate

    December 2004

    Washington – Today’s recent jobs report finds weaker than expected numbers for the nation as a whole. The report is disturbing, particularly considering the crisis in unemployment facing low-skill employees the Employment Policies Institute noted today. Groups such as teenagers, high-school dropouts, and minorities continue to face crippling unemployment rates. In November, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.4%. High school dropouts, however, faced an unemployment rate…
  • Low-Skill Employees Still Suffering Difficult Labor Market: High School dropouts face exceptionally high unemployment rate

    December 2004

    Washington – Today’s recent jobs report finds weaker than expected numbers for the nation as a whole. The report is disturbing, particularly considering the crisis in unemployment facing low-skill employees the Employment Policies Institute noted today. Groups such as teenagers, high-school dropouts, and minorities continue to face crippling unemployment rates. In November, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.4%. High school dropouts, however, faced an unemployment rate…
  • Bad Jobs News for Black and Hispanic Teens In October Unemployment Figures: Lawmakers Should Reject Job Destroying Wage Increases

    November 2004

    Washington – While the nation enjoyed exceptionally strong job growth in the month of October, creating 337,000 new jobs, the nation’s least-skilled employees continue to suffer from high unemployment rates. October’s job report should be particularly sobering to voters in Florida and Nevada who recently passed increases in their state minimum wages. These hikes will only serve to make the employment situation for low-skill employees that much…
  • Bad Jobs News for Black and Hispanic Teens In October Unemployment Figures: Lawmakers Should Reject Job Destroying Wage Increases

    November 2004

    Washington – While the nation enjoyed exceptionally strong job growth in the month of October, creating 337,000 new jobs, the nation’s least-skilled employees continue to suffer from high unemployment rates. October’s job report should be particularly sobering to voters in Florida and Nevada who recently passed increases in their state minimum wages. These hikes will only serve to make the employment situation for low-skill employees that much…
  • Proposition 72 Myths: “Yes on 72” Campaign Distorting Costs of Job-Killing Health Care Mandate

    October 2004

    Sacramento –The “Yes on 72” campaign is weaving a web of deceit for voters on the true cost of Proposition 72—a high priced health care mandate on businesses that will result in enormous job loss while still leaving the majority of California’s uninsured without coverage. Supporters of Prop 72 are resorting to blatant misrepresentation of economic reality, including: MYTH: “Proposition 72 will save California’s taxpayers money”– “Yes…
  • Proposition 72 Myths: “Yes on 72” Campaign Distorting Costs of Job-Killing Health Care Mandate

    October 2004

    Sacramento –The “Yes on 72” campaign is weaving a web of deceit for voters on the true cost of Proposition 72—a high priced health care mandate on businesses that will result in enormous job loss while still leaving the majority of California’s uninsured without coverage. Supporters of Prop 72 are resorting to blatant misrepresentation of economic reality, including: MYTH: “Proposition 72 will save California’s taxpayers money”– “Yes…