Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Age discrimination is widespread and has been for years, everyone just shrugs
Don't complain when it happens to you. No one cares.
More than half, 56%, of full-time workers in their early 50s get pushed out of their jobs (due to circumstances like a layoff) before they’re ready to retire, according to a 2018 paper published by the Urban Institute.
“Job loss at older ages is really consequential,” said Johnson, a report co-author. He attributes much of that workplace dynamic to ageism.
Just 10% who suffered an involuntary job separation in their early 50s ever earn as much per week after their separation as before it, the Urban Institute paper said. In other words, 90% earn less — “often substantially less,” Johnson said.
Johnson’s research shows that in the aftermath of the Great Recession (from 2008 through 2012), workers 50 to 61 years old who lost a job were 20% less likely to be reemployed than workers in their 20s and early 30s. Those age 62 and older were 50% less likely to have a new job.
More.
Monday, October 30, 2023
My plan was to give the Middle East to Disney, Florida to the Jews, and Washington state to the Palestinians, but I now realize that I was sadly mistaken
This very serious thinker ™ agrees with Glenn Beck that what America needs most to compete in the 21st century is a population of 1 billion.
These asshats simply repeat the false Associated Press headline that crowds stormed the Russian airport to protest Jews when they were Muslims trying to lynch them
The fellow travelers of anti-semitism in the press are all over the place.
Stephen L. Miller rose to the level of his incompetence long ago, but he's even more popular now, which says more about his audience than it does about him
A good writer might have mocked the man incisively:
Nothing has prepared me for the academic campus environment which I apparently helped foster.
But Miller is not a good writer.
Sad.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Weekend crew at CNBC has a hangover
CNBC front page runs both stories:
Search for Maine shooter continues (yesterday morning)
Search for Maine shooter ends (yesterday evening)
Friday, October 27, 2023
Speaking of neologisms, US House Democrat Cori Bush, member of the Hamas Wing, is a self-described "politivist"
"When the pro-Hamas wing occupies the Capitol it's not an insurrection".
Words mean whatever they say they mean, silly.
Core pce inflation at 3.7% yoy in September 2023: Two years and five months in excess of 3%
Overall pce inflation has been stuck at 3.4% yoy for three months running as of Sep 2023, which indicates to me the Fed will at the very least keep rates where they are, or possibly raise them again as progress has stalled.
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