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Category: Employment

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The future of work: Who will care about the caregivers?

September 19, 2018 Bojan Francuz Activism, Employment, Women Leave a comment

The World Bank (WB), an international financial institution with a questionable track-record of interventions in the developing world, is currently thinking about the future

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Mental health day

Mental Health Days were not just invented

July 16, 2017 Arthur Lieber Employment, Ethics, Human Rights Leave a comment

NBC Nightly News concludes most of its broadcasts with a segment that it calls “Inspiring America.” Because so much “bad news” is reported, particularly

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Janesville, WI

What’s the Matter with Janesville?

May 7, 2017 Arthur Lieber Capitalism, Cities, Community/Common good, Employment, Republican Brain Leave a comment

Each Thursday on the PBS NewsHour, plain-speaking economist Paul Salmon explains difficult issues in his “Making Sen$e” segment. This past week he focused on

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How corporate greed got my daughter fired

September 3, 2015 Susan Cunningham Corporations, Employment, Missouri region Leave a comment

My 49-year-old daughter has limited abilities, but has worked since finishing high school and has lived independently all these years. In fact, she just

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What Donald Trump doesn’t know about the Mexican farm workers who make his 5-star dinner possible

July 21, 2015 Renee Shur Employment, Food, Immigration, Republicans Leave a comment

Donald Trump’s sneers about Latino rapists, criminals, and druggies coming-to-harm-your-property-and-your-kids have real-life consequences. His all-too-familiar ethnic scapegoating intentionally obscures the truth about a community

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Some wins for Obama are better than others

July 1, 2015 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Civil liberties, Courts, Democracy, Employment, Gender issues, Health care, Justice, Military, Obama, Violence Leave a comment

June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.

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Trying to look sympathetically at Trans-Pacific Partnership

April 20, 2015 Arthur Lieber Business, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Foreign Policy, International, Labor and unions, Obama Leave a comment

In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new

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Wisconsin shows how difficult it is to hold on to progressive gains

March 4, 2015 Arthur Lieber Economy, Employment, History, Labor and unions, Religion in Politics, States One comment

Robert Lafollette, Jr. and Joseph McCarthy. Russ Feingold and Scott Walker. How could one state–Wisconsin–elect politicians with such divergent views? No state east of

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Real unemployment rate

A closer look at the 5.9% unemployment rate

December 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment One comment

If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.

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Why is the stock market soaring when the real economy is on its knees?

October 30, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Economy, Employment, Poverty 2 comments

The short answer is the Fed has been propping up the stock market. And, high stock prices are not always tethered to traditional methods of stock

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