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Posts Tagged ‘jobs’
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 28 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: banks, capitalism, cartoon, jobs, protests, Syria, United States, war
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Still watching men work
Posted: 22 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: capitalism, economic representations, jobs, TV, workers
Deadliest Catch is now in its eighth season and we’re still watching the men on the Cornelia Marie, Wizard, Northwestern, Time Bandit, and other boats work. Like last year at just about this time, I want to ask the question, what’s with Deadliest Catch and all the other television shows (from Ice Road Truckers to [...]
The long and winding road—back to peak employment
Posted: 22 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: jobs, states, unemployment, United States
Only four states—Alaska, North Dakota, Texas, and Louisiana—have created enough jobs since the recovery to get back to where they were prior to the recession. A couple more, New York and West Virginia, are expected to return to their prerecession peak later this year. However, according to Steven Frable of IHS Global Insight, the majority [...]
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 20 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, banks, cartoon, France, jobs, Mexico, United States, Wall Street, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 6 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, cartoon, elections, Europe, France, Germany, jobs, Obama, United States
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 17 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, cartoon, Europe, inequality, jobs, politics, rich, United Kingdom, United States, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 10 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Apple, budget cuts, cartoon, China, jobs, Obama, Republicans, taxes, United States, workers
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source Whereas total jobs are up 1.5 percent, private payrolls are up 2.0 percent and public payrolls down by 1 percent (all on a year-to-year basis).
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 24 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, cartoon, Greece, jobs, oil, workers
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Here we go ’round the mulberry bush
Posted: 20 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, capitalism, crisis, economics, jobs, miscellaneous, neoclassical, unemployment, workers
Sometimes—in reading the news, what passes for economy analysis, and the opinions of the punditariat—it seems we’re all just dancing around the mulberry bush. . . For example, now in the face of Draconian austerity policies, Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot Müller want us to believe in the invisible confidence fairy: Due to the sovereign-risk [...]
