Aldermen: Look To Depression-Era Programs To Boost Employment
A pair of Chicago aldermen are suggesting the past may provide a path to future employment, for millions of young men and women who still cannot find jobs.
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A pair of Chicago aldermen are suggesting the past may provide a path to future employment, for millions of young men and women who still cannot find jobs.
Three weeks after nearly 10,000 job seekers packed a job fair at Chicago State University, a congressman who sponsored the fair is telling the recruiters to make good on their promises to hire.
Some Americans are concerned there's a lot of heated rhetoric going back and forth in Washington, but it's not generating enough results. Illinois lawmakers say that's not true – they're getting results.
The job outlook is dismal, but there is hope, if you have the right skills for the jobs available. As CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports, there's a program in Chicago that re-trains people who thought they had jobs for life, only to be downsized out of the workplace.
As the economic recovery continues to sputter, several Chicago area companies have announced plans for more layoffs, starting next month.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared at a Chicago-hosted jobs conference on Wednesday with his old boss, former President Bill Clinton, and said Chicago has 120,000 job openings right now, but unemployment stands at 9 percent.
An economic forecast, released Monday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, projects a very slow recovery for Chicago and other metropolitan areas.
Illinois' unemployment rate jumped a bit in May to 8.9 percent. The state's teen unemployment rate is a whole another story.
Unemployment in Illinois was up modestly last month, breaking a 15-month trend of declining joblessness in the state.
The unemployment rate in the Chicago area fell to 8.7 percent in March from 9 percent in February and from 11.1 percent in March 2010, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday.
The worsening economy has now hit teenagers, and new statistics for Illinois show that African-American teens in particular are more likely to be without a job.
The unemployment rate in Illinois fell to 8.8 percent in March from 8.9 percent in February and from 11 percent a year earlier, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was invited too, and he agrees with the premise of free enterprise, even if some people can't achieve that dream.
The recent abolishment of the death penalty in Illinois has also left some standing in the unemployment line.
Officials are reporting good news about the unemployment rate in the Chicago area.
State officials say the unemployment rate in Illinois declined again in December to 9.3 percent - its lowest level since March 2009.
For a third straight month, the unemployment rate dropped in Chicago and every other metropolitan area across Illinois in November compared with a year ago.
Every week at the library in Sycamore, those without jobs get together every week: Their goal is to not be a member of the club.
Five months before the presidential election, this rating is disastrous for Obama – almost as disastrous as the lack of any results for America these past four years.
Unemployment jumped unexpectedly in November, hitting 9.8 percent nationwide. It came as some families learned their unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Illinois' unemployment rate fell to 9.8 percent in October as the state added another 8,000 jobs.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security is reporting unemployment in all the state's metropolitan areas fell in September.
Unemployment fell in Illinois by a fraction of a percent last month, even though a total of 95,000 people lost their jobs nationwide.
