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The rate of positive drug tests last year reached the highest level in 12 years, though employees' drugs of choice varied according to geography.

Workplace drug testing finds cocaine, marijuana use at 12-year high

June 4, 2018 at 8:41 p.m.

Employees increasingly are testing positive for marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines at work, driving the rates of positive drug tests in the United States to the highest level in 12 years....

Spate of store closures puts a wrinkle in summer jobs for teens

March 30, 2019 at 6:24 a.m.

A summer spent folding and refolding sweaters at the mall was once a teen rite of passage. But as the end of the school year nears, young people hoping to...

Jennifer Navarro, center, and her Prosser Career Academy teammates prepare for a May 9, 2017, softball game at Senn High School. Navarro, an 18-year-old senior, participated last year in a summer jobs program aimed at immigrant youths and has applied to participate again this summer.

Deportation fears not dampening city’s summer jobs program for immigrant youths

June 4, 2018 at 10:11 p.m.

A summer jobs program designed for immigrant youths is set to enter its third year amid a tense political climate around immigration. But the city program, which employs 16- to...

The Illinois Department of Employment Security office in Springfield.

More jobless Illinoisans are giving up the job search, study finds

June 4, 2018 at 10:04 p.m.

Though people often focus on unemployment rates as a measure of economic health, another telling data point is how many people are so discouraged with the job search that they're...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, talks with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein at an April 14, 2014, reception with alumni of Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses program at La Taberna Tapas, a restaurant in Chicago's University Village neighborhood.

Goldman Sachs-funded small-business program in Chicago to be extended

June 4, 2018 at 9:57 p.m.

Chicago will get another $10 million from Goldman Sachs to extend a program that aims to help small businesses grow, Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to announce Wednesday morning with the...

Students gather on the University of Chicago campus.

University of Chicago grad students, undergrad library workers seek to unionize

June 4, 2018 at 10:23 p.m.

The University of Chicago is facing unionization efforts from both graduate and undergraduate student workers. Graduate Students United, a group that has campaigned for improved conditions for grad student workers...

Obamas pledge $2 million for summer jobs, apprenticeships for Chicago youth

June 4, 2018 at 11:50 p.m.

Barack and Michelle Obama are donating $2 million toward two Chicago programs that provide summer jobs and apprenticeships, setting the stage for the coming Obama Presidential Center's mission to help...

Francine Rico, 49, a certified nursing assistant, is photographed April 27, 2017, at the headquarters of SEIU Healthcare Illinois in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Workers at 53 nursing homes have announced plans to strike next week.

Nursing home workers’ strike is canceled

June 4, 2018 at 11:42 p.m.

A strike that threatened to affect 53 Chicago-area nursing homes was canceled hours before it was set to begin early Thursday after a tentative agreement on a new contract was...

Participants of the Resist, Reimagine, Rebuild Coalition May Day march proceed down Ogden Aveue in Chicago on May 1, 2017, to Union Park to join with the larger May Day march to Daley Plaza.

Hispanic grocery stores, restaurants shut for May Day

June 5, 2018 at 12:53 a.m.

Monday's May Day protests targeted a broad range of progressive causes, including income inequality, racism and climate change, but the Chicago businesses that closed so their workers could march were...

Nursing home workers threaten strike at 53 Chicago-area facilities

June 5, 2018 at 1:16 a.m.

Some 5,000 workers at 53 Chicago-area nursing homes are threatening to go on strike next week if long-running contract negotiations don't satisfy their calls for higher wages and staffing levels....

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