Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121216:14:41:00
And high levels of long-term unemployment didn't show up on the dol numbers because the way you show up is by applying for unemployment insurance. louisiana went right to work in '76. they had a 33% union rate in construction then. by the time 29 years later after hurricane katrina, they were down to 3%. and a group of unemployed people decided to build power to bargain with the state for a path way back into that iconic american construction job that was a path and a career ladder to the middle class. so what they're strategy was, not to simply bargain with contractors, but to actually bargai...
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