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Phillip Brown, left, celebrates May 17, 2016, with Rand Haas, manager of the Manufacturing Careers Internship Program after Brown was recognized along with other graduates of the internship program. Three of the 12 graduating interns, including Brown, were hired on by their host companies.

Chicago tackles youth unemployment as it wrestles with its consequences

June 14, 2018 at 2:26 p.m.

Margo Strotter, who runs a busy sandwich shop in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, makes it a point to hire people with "blemishes." But young people? She sighs and shakes her head....

For young men struggling to gain foothold, search for career brings hope, heartache

June 15, 2018 at 3:59 a.m.

The morning of his final internship evaluation, Adonis Clayborn woke up in his girlfriend's car. Unable to afford a motel room, he had reclined the driver's seat, covered himself in...

Striking workers stand with a giant rat in front of BP's Whiting. Ind., refinery on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive research group, calculates how much more nonunion private-sector workers would have earned in 2013 had private-sector union membership remained at 1979 levels.

Union decline has taken big bite out of nonunion paychecks, report says

August 21, 2019 at 7:55 p.m.

You don't have to be in a union for your paycheck to feel the impact of organized labor's long decline. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute, a research...

Chefs are among the top occupations to strongly agree with the statement, "I am the top performer at my company for jobs similar to mine," according to a new survey from PayScale.com.

Which workers are most full of themselves?

April 5, 2019 at 1:07 a.m.

Who knew private cooks have such big heads? Or that doctors are so humble? In a new survey from PayScale.com, the online salary information company ranked occupations by ego size....

The Chicago skyline is seen June 30, 2016.

Chicago’s unemployment rate drops to 6.2% in July

June 11, 2018 at 3:57 p.m.

The city of Chicago's unemployment rate dropped to 6.2 percent in July from 6.9 percent a year before, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment...

Matilda Stubbs, a Northwestern University doctoral candidate, walks Aug. 16, 2016, with her son Comsos Marquez, 4, in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Stubbs, who said she was not granted any time off when she gave birth to her son, is in favor of allowing graduate students to unionize. The matter is now before the National Labor Relations Board.

NLRB rules that grad students are employees, opens door to unionization

June 9, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that grad students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities are employees covered by federal labor laws, a major decision...

A tractor is assembled July 30, 2015, at Caterpillar in Peoria. Illinois' GDP grew 0.8 percent in the first quarter of 2016, ranking the state 39th among the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

Illinois’ economic performance remains lackluster

June 10, 2018 at 1:24 a.m.

The state of Illinois continued to lag the nation in job growth and other key economic indicators as it passed the midyear mark in July, though in the past few...

Liz Dozier of Chicago Beyond talks with Kewanis Tynes, 21, after an Aug. 22, 2016, rehearsal of Storycatchers Theatre's Changing Voices program in Chicago. Participants, recently released from juvenile detention centers and prisons, are paid to write and perform shows based on their own life stories, usually in front of students. Chicago Beyond will give $900,000 to the Storycatchers program.

Chicago Beyond announces winners of first innovation investments

June 10, 2018 at 3:47 a.m.

Chicago Beyond, a philanthropic venture launched this spring by former Fenger High School principal Liz Dozier, announced Tuesday that it will invest $2.7 million to enhance and study the impact...

A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling that Illinois manufacturer Amglo Kemlite Laboratories unlawfully retaliated against workers protesting low wages by transferring some work to Mexico.

Appeals court: Suburban firm unfairly retaliated against strike by sending jobs south

June 11, 2018 at 9:05 p.m.

A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling that Illinois manufacturer Amglo Kemlite Laboratories unlawfully retaliated against workers protesting low wages by transferring some work to Mexico. In a decision...

Tory Patterson paints a viaduct in the 8900 block of south Morgan St. in Chicago as he and other teens kick off the 2016 One Summer Chicago jobs program, Monday, June 27, 2016.

Illinois July unemployment rate dips to 5.8 percent

June 10, 2018 at 9:23 a.m.

Illinois added 11,600 jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate drop to 5.8 percent, the lowest since last summer, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Illinois Department...

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