DeLauro and Johnson introduce bill to combat discrimination against unemployed
ADP jobs report blows past all expectations
An employment report based on the payrolls of 430,000 private businesses announced a huge gain in new non-farm job creation today, nearly three times what the expert consensus had predicted. The gain "suggests nonfarm private employment grew very strongly in December, at a pace well above what is usually associated with a declining unemployment...
99ers and the Bum’s Rush
What about the pay ethic?
I have a friend who works as a security guard at a big department store retail chain. Security guard work is one of the few available avenues of employment for high-school-only educated people in America. The elite political class has apparently decided that making, building, and growing things are best left to foreigners and that...
Open thread for night owls: Race to the bottom
At the Campaign for America's Future, Dave Johnson writes, Winning The Race To The Bottom:
"Free trade" -- moving factories across borders to evade the protections of democracy that generations of Americans fought for -- pits exploited workers with few rights and no means of improving their condition against Americans...
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Student Internships: Good Experience, Weak LawSince 1992, the percentage of graduating college students who participated in internships during their schooling has risen from 9% to 83%, now running at 2.5 million students each year. These have benefits for both employer and student, including networking and vetting for future employment. On the student end, not just benefits, but, increasingly, a requirement.... Jobless Report Tends to Confirm Tepid RecoveryIt was the same story as last month in the lead up to today's release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report: A couple of weeks of mixed economic news. The report clocked in this morning with the jobless numbers well below the consensus predicted by experts surveyed by Bloomberg and The Wall... Home Job a Good Gig, If You Can Find OneI had a boss a decade ago who hated the idea of employees working from home. Hated it. Glared at me every time I suggested we let a few of our team work at home at least a couple of days a week. That team mostly comprised editors and, with an Internet hook-up, they could... Labor Survey: Third of Young Workers Move Home to Save MoneyFiled under: Economy, Health Care, Woman Up, Culture With Labor Day coming up this Monday, a survey of workers under 35 by the AFL-CIO released Tuesday shows young workers have very little to celebrate.Ten years ago -- the last time workers younger than... It’s Crunch Time on Jobs, and Time for Obama to Make His MoveFiled under: Economy, Health Care  There's no way to spin your way out of the highest unemployment rate in 26 years. There's probably no way to blame it on your predecessor, either. The only way for President Obama to fix this political problem is to fix...David Obey Slams Obama Administration for Errors in Reporting Stimulus Job GainsFiled under: House, Democrats, Economy The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee slammed the Obama administration Tuesday for "outrageous" errors in data that led to inflated job-creation numbers on recovery.org, the Web site that reports on the president's stimulus program. The Hill reports that, due to "unrealistic" reports...Follow seriouslypolitics on Twitter!
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