As the new year begins, it’s as good a time as any to look at a topic almost completely ignored by mainstream media: how Native American people are faring in the U.S. labor market. The economy and its paucity of jobs dominated U.S. headlines throughout 2010, but news media overlooked the particularly difficult experiences of …
The State of Native America: Very Unemployed and Mostly Ignored Read More »
The new year started with better but not great news on the jobs front. The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Labor released this morning show that unemployment dropped from 9.8 percent in November to 9.4 percent in December. Even with the expected holiday season hires, only 103,000 net new jobs were created last …
Jobless Rate Falls, But Job Creation Falls Short of What Nation Needs Read More »
It is still very grim out there for those people who want decent paying work. Not just a job–but a job that pays a fair wage. Today’s numbers make even more clear–we need a Job Party. I’ll talk about the Job Party a bit more. But, first, let’s look at the numbers: While the overall …
Long ago, on New York City’s docks, Frankie drilled into me the American credo about climbing the ladder to a better life. “Kid, you gotta finish college,” he would say. “You gotta do better than this. All you need is to work harder and you can get there.” Frankie, a massive fellow who had spent …
Don’t Count on Tomorrow: The New Credo for the Unemployed Read More »
Just read a story on AOL about a CEO of a small construction company. (Actually two stories…the original and her update). Link at the end of the post. Even though she doesn’t acknowledge it….or maybe even recognize it, within her stories there is a message for how to survive and find the next job. Simply …
Story of an Unemployed Executive – With a Hidden Message for Survival Read More »
Denver Sparks Parental Involvement En Espanol The experts agree: parental involvement has strong positive effects on students’ achievement in school. When parents are engaged with their child’s education, attendance improves, grades and test scores go up, and graduation rates rise. But how can school districts involve parents who don’t speak English? In Denver, where three …
In my last blog I wrote about the huge profits that corporations made during the third quarter of 2010. $1.695 trillion, give or take a few bucks. Okay, I whined a bit about corporations hoarding this money and not giving our economy a chance to build back its consumer marketplace by hiring new employees. Here …
If you feel like the recent recession screwed most of us over and left the fat cats even fatter, the next bit of information is going to really set you off. So I’d suggest that you go into the room with the most padding, remove all sharp objects and concentrate to keep your last meal …
Jobless Recovery? Yes. Profitless Recovery? Hell No. Read More »
Today, Abraham Lincoln would have to say America’s got a government of the people by the corporations, for the corporations. That’s because American corporations are in control, exercising all the Supreme Court-granted rights and privileges of personhood while shirking all of the responsibilities of citizenship. The proposed trade agreement with South Korea illustrates corporate control of government for profit. Americans hate the FTA that will cost jobs and increase the trade deficit. But corporations, which stand to profit from it, are insisting on its passage and succeeded in spinning the break down of talks in Seoul as a failure for Obama.
In June the ESPN Zone restaurant in Baltimore’s trendy Inner Harbor shopping and entertainment district closed after workers were given just a week’s notice and state regulators were given only one day notice. In a class-action lawsuit filed Monday naming ESPN Zone’s owner Disney, five workers allege this was a violation of the WARN Act, …
Baltimore Workers File Class-Action Suit Over ESPN Zone Closure Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
