Showing posts with label The Worker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Worker. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Speaking of The Worker, what's old and stupid is new again at The Department of Labor

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  A fatal notion of things, half false & half stupid, began to pervade educated & semi-educated minds: "the worker" become...
Monday, July 28, 2025

The Detroit News: Harvest of hand-picked crops in Michigan in immediate peril due to Trump deportation program, prices set to rocket higher

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 Editorial: Trump must act quickly to avert a harvest crisis The immigration crisis at the southern border has been replaced by one in Amer...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The decline of worker hours in America

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 In 1966 all the hours worked by all the full time and part time workers divided by the civilian employment level peaked at about 35.35 hour...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

By 2032 no more than 29% of new cars can be gas-powered, and Kamala Harris doesn't have to do anything to make it happen except get elected to protect the Biden EPA rule

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  That's one big reason why Kamala says she can't think of one thing she'd do differently than Joe Biden.  The Environmental Pro...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

LOL, in article supposedly touting the Cornel West threat, clueless former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader says he prefers Biden autocracy to Trump fascism

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 “I know the difference between fascism and autocracy, and I’ll take autocracy any time,” Nader said, according to the outlet. “Fascism is w...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

CDC: Breakthrough cases in Kentucky skilled nursing facility outbreak in March reached 25%

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COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, Mar...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Somebody's pretty worried Peter Meijer needs help to win in MI-3 over Lynn Afendoulis

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Fix Congress Now!, 1580 Lincoln Street, Suite 520, Denver, CO 80203, has sent a mailer to Michigan voters claiming Lynn Afendoulis got rich...
Friday, May 15, 2020

The only thing Trump has accomplished at "warp speed" is ruining the US economy because he ignored a deadly virus until it was too late

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Trump, the supposed savior of US manufacturing, has presided over the utter collapse of manufacturing capacity uti...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Robin Munro: The Tiananmen massacre was not primarily of the students, rather the workers, not in the Square but citywide in Beijing

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Remembering Tiananmen Square: Western criticisms based on a false version of the clearing of Tiananmen Square have handed the butchers o...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Neel Kashkari and other Fed members seem aware at least of the nosedive in labor's share of business income, but are oblivious to its roots in globalization

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Fooling around with interest rates isn't going to bring back the core manufacturing businesses which once formed the hubs of American m...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Socialists have never cared about actual workers anywhere and have always viewed them as a means to an end

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And "the workers" never existed, either. Socialism had to invent them.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

From the point of view of total hours worked, this is the worst jobs recovery on record

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Friday, August 10, 2018

Yakima Washington Herald lets the cat out of the bag: American fruit grower rich enough to buy hotel to house foreign labor complains they make too much

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Growers want more, cheaper guest workers : Rob Valicoff is relying on 270 guest workers this year to pick his 1,700 acres of apples...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

George Herbert Walker Bush's legacy: It took only 7 years of NAFTA to destroy hours worked in the United States

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Hours of all persons grew 44% during the Reagan bull market, which ended in August 2000. Since then, hours of all persons has grown just 3...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Laugh of the Day: Over 100 "Day Without Immigrants" protesters fired from their jobs

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From the story here : More than 100 protesters across the country were fired from their jobs after skipping work to take part in last ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Smartest president ever says "forebearers" when he meant "forebears"

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Once again, the smartest president ever hatchets the English language, but he'll continue to be portrayed as an intellectual giant i...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

The 86 Republicans who voted for TAA/the 54 who voted against TPP: Just five appear in both lists

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Aderholt Barletta Barr Barton Benishek Bishop (MI) Blum Bost Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (IN) Calvert Coffman Cole Comstock ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Doug Short makes our point: Part-time surged because of the recession, not because of ObamaCare

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Here : "With regard to Obamacare and part-time employment, the surge in part-time employment was triggered by the recession, not ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Rate of wage growth slows by almost 44% year over year 2014 vs. 2013

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Not-seasonally-adjusted, the average hourly earnings of all employees grew by 1.88% between December 2012 and December 2013, to $24.30 f...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Maybe Senator Jon "Tin Ear" Kyl really wants Republicans to lose next week

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Here is the former Senator from Arizona Republican Jon Kyl in The Wall Street Journal (where else?) just days before the Republicans ar...