By Nancy Marshall-Genzer – May 16, 2017 Hey, millennials! The Postal Service is hiring, and it wants you, even if you can’t remember the last time you licked a stamp. The Postal Service’s workforce is aging. In fact, almost a third of its approximately 640,000 workers are eligible to retire. Sixty-five year old Larry Anthony…
By Bruce Alpert – May 14, 2015 WASHINGTON — Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, is lashing out at the U.S. Postal Service for what he calls “illogical” and unsubstantiated justification for the planned shuttering of a mail processing facility on Loyola Avenue in New Orleans and giving the work to an existing facility in Baton…
The United States shed 8.7 million jobs from the official onset of the Great Recession in December 2007 until the economy began regaining jobs in March 2010. Although the economy has since regained all jobs lost, some occupations are shrinking…. At the top of the list, the number of postal service clerks is expected to…
If your job as a bank teller, retail clerk or travel agent disappeared, would you be more likely to move up or down the employment chain? The unfortunate answer is down, which helps explain why the loss of many middle-class jobs is having such a punishing effect on the U.S. economy and the fortunes of…
