Hiring picked up in February, helping to bring the unemployment rate down to its lowest level since December 2008. The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. That’s much stronger growth than in January, when employers hired a revised 119,000 workers. [CNN] THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate dipped to [...]
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Working to Gain Work
Work. It’s a subject people always want to talk about, even though most would probably prefer to forget about it as soon as they down tools for the day. It may be bad for the employed among us to talk about, but I guarantee it’s even worse for those who have no work. Never is it more [...]
‘Long-Term’ Unemployed In U.S. is at 5 Million: Will Congress Extend Unemployment Insurance?
One of the many considerations in whatever kind of “bargain” Congress and the White House agree upon – grand, grim, greasy – are benefits for the unemployed. In terms of having the ability to meet basic expenses, those benefits are crucial for millions. Greg Kaufmann, writing at The Nation, includes a focus on unemployment benefits [...]
Michigan ‘Right to Work’ Measure Passes, Thousand Protest *VIDEO UPDATE*
As expected, the so-called “right to work” measure was approved by legislators, with Republican Gov. Rick Snyder earlier saying he would sign it. As reported at DemocracyNow: Pushed through before Democrats gain five House seats in the new legislature next month, opponents call the effort an organized attack against labor that will suppress wages and [...]
European Day of Action and Solidarity in Progress
The Guardian is providing live updates regarding the “Day of Action and Solidarity” across Europe, with video and lots of photos. From the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC): … The aim of this European day of action and solidarity is to call upon Europe’s leaders to demonstrate their determination to really get to grips with [...]
News Desk: Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.8%, Jack Welch Accuses “Chicago Guys” of Manipulation
Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, caused a stir after the numbers were released, tweeting “Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.” [CNBC] JUST WHEN Mitt Romney makes a break for himself out of the weekly contagion of rolling calamity, as it’s been called, the unemployment number lands. [...]
What Romney and Obama Aren’t Talking About: $7.25 vs. $4326 Per Hour Wage Gap
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Talking about the minimum wage is just boring. Like talking about poverty. And talking about the consistently widening gap between the consistently increasing number of millions of people living in poverty, and the consistently increasing wealth of a tiny number of people living in unimaginable [...]
Unemployment, Foreclosures, Poverty and other Things We’re Not Suppose to Talk About
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. My headline is actually a bit off. It’s probably more accurate to say something like: “Unemployment, foreclosures, poverty and other things we’re suppose to talk about only within approved guidelines.” It’s still “the economy, stupid.” There’s just only one, two corporate party way we’re suppose [...]
It’s the economy, and the “stupid” thing is those running it get away with their games
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. You know how you can hear and use a term so often that you don’t really think about what it means? “The economy,” as a term, is like that. It’s referenced and used frequently with qualifiers like “downturn” and “recovery” and “debt” and “employment” and [...]
Occupy for Jobs
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. An early response to OWS, from critics, was the unoriginal “Get a job.” It was frequently pointed out that one of the primary concerns of the Occupy movement is, in fact, the lack of jobs for those who want and need to work, but apparently [...]
Elevating Eric
In an interview with The Huffington Post, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) aired his concern that the fiscal “belt-tightening” President Obama and many Democrats have pursued has effectively diminished the party’s brand. Democrats, he argued, have “allowed the center of the political debate to be shifted so far to the right that we find [...]
Mitt Romney, King of Layoffs
Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee will provide a wealth of ammunition for Democrats. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy provides the path and the foreshadowing of what could come. Politico’s piece today reveals why, which also provides un-aired as well as aired ads from Ted Kennedy’s old campaign archives. Romney’s troubles begin with Bain Capital. [...]
If Only Pres. Obama Would Bet his Presidency on Protecting Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
… In the same vein, when a politician asserts that social security is going bankrupt and that there will not be anything left for her children or grandchildren, serious reporters would ridicule her for being ignorant of the social security trustees projections. These projections show that even if nothing is ever done to change the [...]
David Plouffe’s Shell Game, 2012 Edition
President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate. – Top Obama adviser says unemployment won’t be key in 2012 King David has spoken. Oh, am I relieved. It’s good to know people won’t vote on the unemployment rate, even though a hell of [...]
Obama Loses his Grip on Hope
Change left the building a long time ago. As for hope, it’s going, going… From Bloomberg: By a 44 percent to 34 percent margin, Americans say they believe they are worse off than when President Barack Obama took office in early 2009, when the U.S. was in the depths of a recession compounded by the [...]
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