Employment
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The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America (Robert Reich)
Oct. 8, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never ...
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America’s Third World Economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 8, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- For a number of years I reported on the monthly nonfarm payroll jobs data. The data did not support the praises economists were singing to the “New ...
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Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster (Robert Wenzel)
Oct. 5, 2010 (EconomicPolicyJournal.com) -- Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council ...
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Record 41.8 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Michael Krebs)
Oct. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- As the November midterm elections draw closer, the stubborn unemployment rate has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps. Representing ...
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Extraordinary! (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2010 -- I walk these quiet empty streets like a post-apocalyptic omega man surrounded by quiet and empty stores and houses. Past the fast food joints ...
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Labor Day and the Easter Bunny (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2010 -- Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that ...
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Nonfarm payrolls drop 131,000 in July (Greg Robb)
Private payrolls up 71,000, economists had been expecting growth of 100,000 Aug. 6, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. employers continued to hire but at a sluggish pace that adds to pessimism ...
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Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure (LEAP/E2020)
Public announcement GEAB N°46 (June 16, 2010) -- Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if ...
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'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)
As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry, The Great Work July 5, 2010 ...
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These Dreams (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 3, 2010 -- I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. I slept later than usual because it was cooler than normal. The heat keeps me from ...
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US Economy Stuck in Misery (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 2, 2010 -- The middle class is dead. The United States has produced a self-sustaining two-class society. Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or ...
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