President Obama unveiled a Roads, Railways and Runways infrastructure proposal today in Milwaukee. The proposal is for a six-year, $50 billion plan to create jobs by improving and expanding 150,000 miles of the nation's roads, 4,000 miles of railways and 150 miles of runways.

In addition the President...

American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs.

If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself off the payroll by...

The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result:

This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from Calculated Risk.

Robert Reich: The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice Ahead Grows Starker

The number of Americans willing and able to work but...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady leads Gov. Pat Quinn in a Chicago Tribune poll of 600 likely voters 37% to 32%, with 19% still undecided about which candidate they will support in the November election.

In Springfield ...

The national jobs report, released this morning, shows that job growth last month was meager. Illinois is no exception. Although there are speculative reports that executives in Illinois might start hiring again during the next three months, jobs are still awfully hard to come by. That's a major reason why so many people are having their unemployment benefits garnished to pay child support and why so many kids now qualify for free or reduced lunch.

The state government's bad budgeting practices don't help, either. The Civic Federation found on Monday that a series of rating downgrades increased that state government's borrowing...

On Monday, the Chicago Federation of Labor will host its annual Labor Day rally and picnic in Chicago's Millennium Park. Gov. Pat Quinn and State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will be on hand for the festivities, which kick off at 11 a.m. You can read all of the information on this flyer (PDF). To get ready for it, watch this short clip of CFL President Jorge Ramirez on WTTW's Chicago Tonight, talking about the animating principles of Chicago's labor movement (the full interview is available here):

Have a great Labor Day, folks!