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  1. New DOL Guidelines Promote Fair Treatment of People w/ Criminal Records Who Seek Jobs Through Fed'l Workforce Programs bit.ly/L4lEbb
  2. Economic Justice Petition: Stop excluding home care aides from minimum wage and overtime! | Change.org chn.ge/M7zCNA
  3. Don't pull plug on the long-term unemployed | Christine Owens - Special to CNN bit.ly/L3iB4E #unemployment #jobs
  4. Lean Forward - It's basically impossible to live on the minimum wage bit.ly/LSsHZg #RaiseTheMinimumWage
  5. Dismal Growth in May Adds Just 69,000 Jobs - meanwhile cuts to unemployment aid continue bit.ly/LdUAsf #unemployment #jobs
  6. Jobless 6-mo+ up 137k to 5.4 million in May. But phase-out of federal Unemployment Insurance continues bit.ly/KCcoje #jobsreport
  7. RT @Prison_Health: Model State Legislation to Reduce Employment Barriers for People w Criminal Records PDF ht.ly/bgfrS
  8. Visas Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System bit.ly/Merv4W #workerjustice
  9. Occupy Albany, clergy try to force NY to hike minimum wage; bill politically stalled wapo.st/KNkELG #RaiseNY #RaiseTheMinimumWage
  10. Software Screening Rejects Job Seekers - WSJ on.wsj.com/LMd55l "The real culprits are the employers themselves" #discrimination
  11. BREAKING: 6 arrested during minimum wage protest in Albany. #RaiseNY #OWS on.wsj.com/JwJmgI
  12. 'Unemployed' Doesn’t Mean 'Unemployable' bit.ly/M0ZFWU Calif. bill against #unemployed #discrimination via @CaliforniaLabor
  13. Stop excluding home care aides from minimum wage and overtime! change.org/petitions/stop… via @change
  14. The Credit History Underclass - NYT nyti.ms/KgoHCM Stopping the unfair use of credit checks to shut out job applicants #jobs
  15. Increasing the Minimum Wage Will Help New Jersey's Economy | Gordon MacInnes huff.to/Ju8DYV #RaiseTheMinimumWage
  16. Rick Scott's Florida Unemployment Reform Shortchanges The Jobless: Formal Complaint huff.to/JVaaXr via @ArthurDelaneyHP
  17. Making jobless go cold turkey isn't the answer (Video) - LATimes lat.ms/JPSher ~ As a civilized society, U.S. now comes up short
  18. AUDIO: Unemployment Benefits Will Expire Earlier Than Many Expected - The Takeaway bit.ly/M7dCW3
  19. Raise The Minimum Wage | New York State Clergy Sign-on Statement on Minimum Wage Increase j.mp/MXLMe6