Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $42,660
52%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $270 to reach 53%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: sceconomy

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • S.C. workers fail to connect trade issues with lost jobs

    01/31/2004 7:41:18 PM PST · by TaxRelief · 37 replies · 222+ views
    Charlotte Observer ^ | Jan 30, 2004 | TONY MECIA
    GEORGETOWN, S.C. -- Joe Gamble climbs into his black Chevy pickup and leaves the auto glass repair shop, where he spent 20 fruitless minutes trying to persuade workers to vote for Howard Dean. Like many of the 600 steelworkers laid off in October in this small town south of Myrtle Beach, Gamble, 49, is convinced foreign trade cost him his job. But even here, where the jobless rate is among the state's highest at nearly 15 percent, converting that outrage into political power is proving to be a tough task. Neither of the two workers at the glass-repair shop last...