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Op-Ed Contributor - Women Don't Need the Paycheck Fairness Act - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Contributor - Women Don't Need the Paycheck Fairness Act NYTimes.com

shared by thinkahol * on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 23 Sep 10
     
    AMONG the top items left on the Senate's to-do list before the November elections is a "paycheck fairness" bill, which would make it easier for women to file class-action, punitive-damages suits against employers they accuse of sex-based pay discrimination.
Joe La Fleur

AWESOME - Jeff Sessions to the Senate: The American people shouldn't send ano... - 0 views

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shared by Joe La Fleur on 21 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Joe La Fleur on 21 Apr 12
     
    The Senates own rules state that if they do not pass a budget by April 15th of each year they are not to be paid until they do. They havent passed a budget for over three years and are still drawing a paycheck.
thinkahol *

Robert Reich (The Root of Economic Fragility and Political Anger) - 0 views

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robert reich recession economic fragility political anger

shared by thinkahol * on 04 Aug 10 - Cached
  • thinkahol * on 04 Aug 10
     
    Missing from almost all discussion of America's dizzying rate of unemployment is the brute fact that hourly wages of people with jobs have been dropping, adjusted for inflation. Average weekly earnings rose a bit this spring only because the typical worker put in more hours, but June's decline in average hours pushed weekly paychecks down at an annualized rate of 4.5 percent.
Bakari Chavanu

Robert Reich: David Brooks is Dead Wrong About Inequality | Alternet - 0 views

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shared by Bakari Chavanu on 22 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Such is the case with his New York Times  column last Friday, arguing that we should be focusing on the “interrelated social problems of the poor” rather than on inequality, and that the two are fundamentally distinct.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 22 Jan 14
       
      It's the old blame the poor argument.
  • Once the middle class has exhausted all its coping mechanisms – wives and mothers surging into paid work (as they did in the 1970s and 1980s), longer working hours (which characterized the 1990s), and deep indebtedness (2002 to 2008) – the inevitable result is fewer jobs and slow growth, as we continue to experience.
  • Third, America’s shrinking middle class also hobbles upward mobility. Not only is there less money for good schools, job training, and social services, but the poor face a more difficult challenge moving upward because the income ladder is far longer than it used to be, and its middle rungs have disappeared.
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  • o the contrary, as wealth has accumulated at the top, Washington has reduced taxes on the wealthy, expanded tax loopholes that disproportionately benefit the rich, deregulated Wall Street, and provided ever larger subsidies, bailouts, and tax breaks for large corporations. The only things that have trickled down to the middle and poor besides fewer jobs and smaller paychecks are public services that are increasingly inadequate because they’re starved for money.
Skeptical Debunker

A job, but there's a catch: a 1,000-mile commute - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "I like to say I gave up an eight-minute commute for an eight-hour commute," he says wearily, running a hand though salt-and-pepper hair as he watches his two sons play basketball for the first time this season. After the aging General Motors plant where he worked for 23 years was idled about a year ago, Hanley faced a Hobson's choice: Stay with his family and search for an autoworker's salary ($28 an hour) in a county where more than 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs disappeared from 2006 to 2009. Or hang on to his GM paycheck and health insurance and follow the job, no matter where it leads. In his case, it led to Fairfax, Kan., the same place his brother and two brothers-in-law — also GM workers, and now his roommates — landed. For others, it has been Indiana or Texas. The long commute is not just a story of hard times, tough choices and a shrinking American auto industry. It's also a case study of what happens when an aging industrial town loses an anchor, when workers too old to start over and too young to retire are caught in a squeeze and when economic survival means one family, but two far-flung ZIP codes.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, then heads up a ribbon of highway past grain silos and grazing deer, across the frozen fields of Iowa, over the Mississippi River and into the rolling hills of Wisconsin. Finally, he pulls into his driveway - 530 miles later. It's one heck of a haul: more than 1,000 miles roundtrip, 16-plus hours of driving, every week.
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