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Recession fuels GenX job market discontent

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:24:42 -0600

In the workforce, 32 to 44-year-old wage earners are increasingly caught between the children of baby boomers as well as boomers themselves.

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Please Pass the Stimulus, Columnist Urges Obama

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:20:25 -0600

Are Illinois government financial trials & tribulations reflective of a stubborn recession? Chicago Sun Times columnist Rich Miller asks whether the Obama Administration should buck blue dogs & Republicans by borrowing a page from President Nixon's revenue sharing?

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Mayor Daley Defends Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:33 -0600

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley defends raiding the Skyway-Parking Meter trust fund to bridge a $500 million dollar budget shortfall. Worst recession or dodging budget cuts, Windy Citizens?

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Unemployment Knocks Blacks Out of the Middle Class

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:56:07 -0600

Last hired, first fired earns African Americans the dubious distinction of having the highest Chicago unemployment rate. Will this financial recession need another economic stimulus, fellow Windy Citizens?

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Chicagoans having their cake and eating it, too, even during a recession.

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:34:20 -0500

Shot at Eli's Cheesecake Factory in Chicago, IL.

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Spam Making A Comeback In Tough Times

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:41:09 -0500

"Spam's makers say sales have increased by double digits over the past six months. That's no surprise to Ivan Lee whose family owns Chicago's Aloha Eats Hawaiian Grill.

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Chicago Bulls home game attendance since the recession began

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:09:44 -0500

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the current recession we are in began in December 2007.

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Mayor Daley calls out Chicago Police union for picketing during recession

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:46:24 -0500

Telling the Chicago police union to "get real," Mayor Daley argued that the city has been very good to its employees recently, being one of the only cities in the country to be building new police sta

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Religion and the Recession

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:33:56 -0600

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Coping with the downturn: a Hanover Park success story

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:26:19 -0600

Kathy Sullivan, a single mother of two, budgets her way through the economic crisis despite having lost her job at Sears.

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