Category unemployment
Hip Hop Happy Time!
Yes, I’m depressing to read lately. Don’t know why anybody would follow my posts. And this week just passed was the week that crap blew up all over the place. The week of the Methane Bubble in Siberia. The week when a Malaysian airliner got shot down over Ukraine. The week when a whole lot […]
Commemorate the CCC and WPA!
Wikipedia I write this on the morning that a recently-released Gallup poll revealed unemployment to be the number one concern of Americans, with almost three times as many people considering it to be a bigger problem than the deficit (23% versus 8%). For those joining us late, I’ve been posting about the subject of unemployment […]
The Unemployment protest on Feb 7
So there we were in the cold. It was noon on Friday and we were in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street. We were a small gathering. So there we all were in the cold on Friday, yelling about unemployment. Anybody in this picture who isn’t wearing heavy cold gear is freezing their butt […]
Rise up for the unemployed this Friday
Occu-Evolve is organizing a protest specifically around the issue of unemployment. It’s Friday at noon. Here’s why you should be there: Despite the much touted ‘recovery’, adult employment participation is lower than it has been since married women started entering the workforce in 1978. Since 1978, it has taken most families 104 weekly paychecks to […]
Where is Occupy Wall Street on Extended Unemployment?
My ire was stirred a week or so ago by an article in Huff Post about the end of long-term unemployment benefits. For those of you joining late, the Congress left town in December for the Holiday recess without renewing extended unemployment benefits, which expired on December 28. The article itself was pretty straightforward. They interviewed a […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 