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** FILE ** Job seekers stand in line during U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler's "Getting Southwest Washington Back to Work Job Fair" on Sept. 28, 2011, in Vancouver, Wash. (Associated Press)
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Alexandria Seaport Foundation staffer and former ASF apprentice Steve Hernandez (right) works with law student interns who spent the day working side by side with the Alexandria Seaport Foundation apprentices, learning about team work in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Located on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation is a non-profit paid apprenticeship and hands-on educational program which serves at-risk youths ages 17-21. In the program these youths learn life skills, team work and building their self esteem. In the program apprentices learn carpentry skills and planing for career paths, in addition to earning their GED right here. The ASF says that it costs $100,000.00 to detain a juvenile for a year in Virginia, but only $15,000.00 to educate and place an ASF apprentice. The paid staff and numerous volunteers teaches approximately 8-16 students, however today they are working with around 10. The program lasts 5 to 8 months. Every Tuesday night is "Open Shop" a time when the shop is open to the public. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Apprentice Thomas Henry works on a dory boat with other apprentices and volunteers at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, June 28, 2011.Located on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation is a non-profit paid apprenticeship and hands-on educational program which serves at-risk youths ages 17-21. In the program these youths learn life skills, team work and building their self esteem. In the program apprentices learn carpentry skills and planing for career paths, in addition to earning their GED right here. The ASF says that it costs $100,000.00 to detain a juvenile for a year in Virginia, but only $15,000.00 to educate and place an ASF apprentice. The paid staff and numerous volunteers teaches approximately 8-16 students, however today they are working with around 10. The program lasts 5 to 8 months. Every Tuesday night is "Open Shop" a time when the shop is open to the public. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Apprentices in the Alexandria Seaport Foundation program work side by side with law student interns building a small boat in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, June 28, 2011. The law students came there to learn about team work skills. Located on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation is a non-profit paid apprenticeship and hands-on educational program which serves at-risk youths ages 17-21. In the program these youths learn life skills, team work and building their self esteem. In the program apprentices learn carpentry skills and planing for career paths, in addition to earning their GED right here. The ASF says that it costs $100,000.00 to detain a juvenile for a year in Virginia, but only $15,000.00 to educate and place an ASF apprentice. The paid staff and numerous volunteers teaches approximately 8-16 students, however today they are working with around 10. The program lasts 5 to 8 months. Every Tuesday night is "Open Shop" a time when the shop is open to the public. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Darel Bellamy works with fellow apprentices on a 3,000-pound River Dory boat they are building at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation. The apprentice program lasts four to six months and offers a work level similar to that in a union shop. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia state Senate candidate Shawn Mitchell works the phones in his Modern Mechanical office in Ashburn, Va. A candidate in the newly drawn District 13 in Prince William and Loudoun counties, Mr. Mitchell recently settled a messy legal dispute with a former employer. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Mitt Romney talks to a supporter after a town-hall meeting in Miami on Wednesday. He discussed his plans to improve the economy and create jobs. (Associated Press)
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The American Conservative Union's "CPAC-FL" gathering is one of a number of major Republican events in and around Orlando, Fla., over the next fewer days. (American Conservative Union)
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A job fair in Los Angeles last month drew crowds of people looking for work. The International Monetary Fund and the Obama administration have projected the national unemployment rate to average about 9 percent next year. (Associated Press)
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"The auto industry is back. General Motors and the UAW are working together to create jobs in America," United Auto Workers President Bob King (right, with union Vice President Joe Ashton) said Tuesday in Detroit. (Associated Press)
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Los Angeles Lakers' Derek Fisher, center, president of the NBA players union, is joined by NBA players, union executive director Billy Hunter, right, and and other NBA players during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, in Las Vegas. Players will remain unified and calm in what could be a lengthy pursuit of a labor agreement, union Fisher says. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Annelie Ingvarsson (left) waits in line to talk to potential employers during a National Career Fairs job fair on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Joe Ashton is vice president of the United Auto Workers, which was trying to nail down the terms of a new contract with the Big Three automakers in Detroit. Talks were going down to the wire. (Associated Press)
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"I'm very concerned our president has pursued labor policies that are destructive to industry, to hiring and to job growth," said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate. (Associated Press)
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A pair of shoes and a mirror sit on the desk in an office cubicle at the administration building. Employees moved documents from the building for safekeeping. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Cowlitz County, Wash., sheriff grabs a union worker by the throat as police move in on several hundred union workers blocking a grain train in Longview, Wash., on Wednesday. Longshoremen blocked the train as part of an escalating dispute about labor at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview.
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Wal-Mart is rolling out a layaway option from Oct. 17 through Dec. 16 after ending the pay-as-you-go plans in 2006. The company is introducing the option at a time when many of its shoppers are trying to cope with high unemployment and rising costs. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Cowlitz County Sheriff grabs a union worker by the throat as police move in on several hundred union workers blocking a grain train in Longview, Wash., on Wednesday. Longshoremen blocked the train as part of an escalating dispute about labor at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenyan teachers march in the streets of Nairobi on Tuesday. More than 200,000 teachers went on strike to protest the diversion of government funds meant to hire more teachers to alleviate overcrowding of classrooms, said the chairman of the country's biggest teachers union.
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A worker leaves with a moving box Wednesday at Solyndra in Fremont, Calif. The solar-panel manufacturer, which received a $535 million loan from the U.S. government, has announced layoffs of 1,100 workers and plans to file for bankruptcy. A weak economy and strong overseas competition have proved insurmountable. (Associated Press)
