by Eric Lotke | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
The August unemployment data are out. The unemployment rate was "about unchanged" at 9.6 percent,” says the BLS press release. Teenagers "showed little change" at 26.3 percent, as did African Americans (16.3 percent) and Hispanics (12.0 percent). You can feel the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
Most of the chatter around poll numbers you'll hear over the next several weeks will be about whether either body of Congress changes hands. But some of these poll questions actually ask about what the country wants Congress to do. And it's crystal clear Americans...
by Eric Lotke | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
The complaints are starting on the new Obama administration. Some are concerned that he filled his administration with former Clinton hands, reflecting the old school (if more competent), not the change we need. “What worries me is there is not one person in the...
by Alan Jenkins | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for housing inmates in tent cities in the desert and making them wear pink clothes as humiliation, but also for allegations of racial profiling and abusive treatment of Latinos, inside and outside of his jailhouse....
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog
If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population...
