Obama Presidential Center Rising, Finally, in Chicago...
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.
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.
In Iowa 57% of Republicans want someone other than Trump in 2023, down from almost 76% of Iowans in 2016 who wanted someone else heh heh
So much winning!
Iowa (DMR/NBC): Trump 43, DeSantis 16, Haley 16, Scott 7
Trump came in second behind Ted Cruz in the Feb 1, 2016 Iowa Republican Caucus:
Ted Cruz 27.64%
Donald Trump 24.3%
Marco Rubio 23.12%.
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.