Working Life

    Here are a few ways clues that show very clearly the hit many workers are taking. The UAW has had to go on strike against American Axle after talks broke down late last night over a new contract. Check out what the company wants 3,600 workers to accept, according to The Wall Street Journal: […]

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    Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]

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    Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]

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    Though not surprising, here’s a report that puts some facts behind a grim picture: Low wages, inadequate benefits, and limited work supports leave one-in-five people (nearly 41 million) in working families struggling to make ends meet. According to a study released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, and […]

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    You can’t hardly turn on the boob tube or read a newspaper or look at a mainstream website without hearing the clamor about the benefits of “globalization” and “increased trade” blah, blah, blah…if you try to contest that nonsense, you’re just a dumb protectionist (trust me, I have the scars to show it…oh, sorry, […]

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