Archive for the 'unemployment' Category
Equal Pay Day
Preznit Hopey McChange celebrates equal pay day….
…after dealing women’s reproductive rights away for the second time in a row.
So ladies, the president wants you to make equal money, even though it’s hard to find full-time employment when you’re pregnant with a baby you don’t want because you can’t access an abortion.
War on Working People
That’s what this is,and it comes from Republicans AND Democrats.
Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers, elected officials from Maine to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, are pushing new legislation to limit the power of labor unions, particularly those representing government workers, in collective bargaining and politics. [...]
But in some cases — mostly in states [...]
Open Letter to Bob Casey, Friend of the Wealthy
[amended from the original, which was addressed to a very good legislative aide in Casey's office. Also, instead of providing links, I have embedded them.]
Dear Senator Casey,
I am aghast and disgusted that you voted for this destructive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. With a net worth of more half a [...]
No Unemployment for You
The same Senate that is always able to find money for wars and bank bailouts will not be passing an umployment extension or a jobs bill. This is utter insanity, when the official unemployment rate is nearly 10%, and the unofficial rate is probably closer to 20% as it was in 2009. The bill [...]
Read More..>>love You, Going to Miss You
Thanks, BP, you fucking DICKS:
Read More..>>May Day: Lucy Parsons
Since neither newspaper in working-class Philadelphia recognized May Day this year, I will do my bit by quoting Lucy Parsons’ “TO TRAMPS, The Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable” in full.
A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of [...]
GOP Staffers: Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line
A glance at the Republican job bank page on Texas Rep. John R. Carter’s website paints the whole, bleak picture with what it doesn’t show: real jobs.
“It’s a double-whammy,” said Brad Traverse, whose staffing website, www.bradtraverse.com, is a popular destination for job seekers on the Hill. “You have more firms who are both looking for [...]
I Am Part of the Problem
Via atrios, I discovered that I am part of the problem:
Retail sales fell off a cliff in September, plunging by the largest amount in three years as worried consumers shunned the malls and auto showrooms in the midst of the country’s financial meltdown.
The Commerce Department reported Wednesday retail sales decreased 1.2 percent last month, nearly [...]
White House, GOP to Unemployed Americas: Get a Job, Ya Lazy Bum
Think Progress:
Q You mentioned earlier about the pain everybody is feeling as a result of all this. Well, the House passed an unemployment extension bill, which would extend unemployment for all states for seven weeks, and for those that have high unemployment, above six percent, for an additional 13. Would the White House support this [...]
