Reverend Jesse Jackson (center, second row), leads a march for jobs around the White House, protesters carry signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for employment, Washington DC, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, January 15, 1975.

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Man engaged in sulphur mining, a back_breaking and dangerous job in the Kawah Ijen Crater, Ijen Volcano, East Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Shoppers pass by a Talbots store on Madison Avenue in New York on Sunday, February 8,2009. Talbots anounced that it will close twenty stores in the US and eliminate 370 jobs. (© Richard B. Levine)

Police attempt to break up demonstration against racial discrimination in jobs at construction site of new Barrington High School, 7/3/63, Newark, NJ.

Young black business man looking through the classified job listings in the newspaper in studio white background Denver, Colorado, USA

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A Kate Spade store in the Flatiron neighborhood of New York on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Liz Claiborne, the owner of the brand, as well as Juicy Couture and Lucky Jeans,, announced that because of the economic climate they would cut 8 percent of their workforce, 725 jobs. (© Richard B. Levine)