By Lee A. Daniels
The gloomy federal jobs report for May has brought to the forefront again all the questions – and fears – about the economy and the jobs crisis that six months ago were pushed into the deep background by the compromise on unemployment benefits between President Obama and the Republicans in Congress.

By George E. Curry
In the 1960s, we had the War on Poverty. In 2011, we’re now seeing a War on People Who Live in Poverty.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The beginning of the month may have felt like April Fool’s Day to a significant segment of America’s labor population. That’s when reports started pouring in about the new jobless rate and rise in job creation.

By Lee A. Daniels
Have I become hard of hearing? Or is it true that the paeans to the middle class – their being exalted as “the backbone” of America – have disappeared from the political arena?

By Doug Miller
A new idea now being widely touted by conservatives as a way to help ease states’ dire fiscal problems – reducing the number of weeks the jobless can receive unemployment benefits – seems to some employment analysts to be a prescription for social disaster.

By Stacey Patton
In this climate, when employers can be especially choosy about whom they hire, and some major companies appear to be engaging in a discriminatory practice that hurts the unemployed, a disproportionate number of them black.

By Lee A. Daniels
Black America has pneumonia, and the fact that it’s winter has nothing to do with it.

By Stacey Patton
Analysts have said that high unemployment in Egypt, and Tunisia, which forced its president out of the country last month, has been a ticking time bomb that created this televised revolution. There have been numerous signs indicating that the U.S. is facing a similar economic Armageddon.

By Lee A. Daniels
Is there a difference between the adjectives “dire” and “terrifying?”

How does one adequately express the predicament African Americans face because of the nation’s three-year-long-and-counting economic crisis? Will the words “looming disaster” do?

By The Editors
The January 14 news article in the Washington Post describes in wrenching detail the struggle of several Washington-area families who, having lost their relatively well-paying jobs, are struggling to hold on to a basic standard of living.

It’s clear that, if they lose that struggle, what likely awaits them is what awaits many others unable to overcome a fruitless search for work: homelessness.