ABC News Labor Day No Picnic for the Unemployed

"In terms of employment growth, the recovery is the worst since the Great Depression, EPI said. Employment has fallen by 1 million since the recovery began. Since the start of the recession in March 2001, about 2.7 million jobs have been lost."

""People have a right to feel insecure about employment right now and nervous about their near-term prospects," said Jared Bernstein, EPI's senior economist. "This is a different Labor Day compared to previous years. There's fewer jobs. Wages are growing more slowly.""

Alternet Labor Day 2003: Nothing to Celebrate

"If ever there was a Labor Day for American workers to celebrate, this sure isn't the one. It's now 30 years since the end of the "golden era" for American labor, which by most accounting ended in 1973. Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee - the median wage - has grown by only 7 percent.

This one statistic says more than the volumes of hype and tripe that will fill the papers and the air waves on Labor Day. It encapsulates the most massive redistribution of income in American history, from the poor, from workers, from former middle classes - to the rich and the super-rich. As billionaire Warren Buffett said to ABC's Ted Koppel last month, "If it's class warfare, my class is winning.""

Berkeley Daily Planet On Labor Day 2003, How Stressed Out Is America? New Survey Says 36% Admit Stress is a Problem in Their Lives

"She said the job center is averaging over 1,000 visits and about 50 new customers a month, up from about 15 to 25 new customers during the tech boom.

But what has changed the most Geiken said is not the shear volume of job seekers, but their backgrounds. "All of the job centers are inundated with IT professionals still laid off," she said. "Three or four years ago folks were looking for entry level jobs, now we are looking at such an array--web designers, engineers.""

Wilmette Life Labor Day to find some still jobless

"One of several job seekers profiled by Pioneer Press in February, Doyle said he decided a few months later to abandon an increasingly fruitless job search and focus his energies on improving his home.

With new homes in Doyle's Glenview Countryside neighborhood selling for more than $1 million, Doyle figures that he can make more on his house than he could working at the kind of jobs -- restaurant dishwasher, for example -- he came upon during his search."

WTHR Indianapolis This Labor Day not a day of celebration for many Hoosiers

"From July of 2002 to July of this year Indiana lost 60,700 jobs, more than any other state.

As of May of this year, 21,000 Hoosier workers were out of work so long they exhausted their unemployment benefits.

"One in five workers since 2000 went through a spell of unemployment," says Davis."

Lacrosse Tribune Vanishing jobs, factory closings thrust Wisconsin into crisis mode, say experts

"The nation's economic recession might have officially ended in November 2001, but hard times are far from over for thousands of Wisconsin residents whose jobs continue to disappear, especially in the hard-hit manufacturing sector. Factories across the state have eliminated 80,000 jobs since 2000. That's more than the entire population of Eau Claire."

"Even companies producing technology -- touted by some as a way to improve the state's economy and raise salaries -- are slashing jobs."