American Workers

What's an American Worker's Life Worth? About $5,900

David Macaray | Posted 05.29.2012

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David Macaray

The only realistic hope one has of working in a safe industrial environment is to join a union. By and large, union jobs are safer than non-union jobs. And given that a union's sole concern is the welfare of its members, why wouldn't they be?

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May Day

Noam Chomsky | Posted 04.28.2012

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Noam Chomsky

May Day started here, but then became an international day in support of American workers who were being subjected to brutal violence and judicial punishment. If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

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Manufacturing Pain Far From Over

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

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* Investment in foreign plants rising, domestic falling * Manufacturing job recovery minimal * Fewer service jobs remain...

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Lila Shapiro

Unemployment Report: Missing Workers Mount Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- After a year without so much as looking at a job application, Lillian Acevedo once again can be counted as a member of the U.S. labor forc...

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What Can We Learn From the French

Josh Sawislak | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Competitiveness, Employee/Management Relations, Work, Management, Performance, American Work Ethic, French Workers, American Workers, DC News
Josh Sawislak

French workers actually have a stronger work ethic than American, British, or Dutch employees. However, the French still lag in the top-line competitiveness score behind all three. So what gives?

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11 Areas Of Dissatisfaction In The U.S. Workplace

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Jobs Crisis, Employees, Unemployment Crisis, Job Security, Employee Satisfaction, Gallup, American Workers, Health Insurance Benefits, Business News

Of all the aspects of the workplace, it's with health insurance benefits that satisfaction is most quickly dropping, according to a recent survey from...

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America's Shareholders

Michelle Vale | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Handbags, American Shareholders, Unemployment, Apple, Made in New York, Made in America, Fashion, Derek Thompson, Jobs, Job Creation, American Workers, New York News
Michelle Vale

It seems clear then that a responsible and considered government policy is the only way to create the local jobs public companies are so keen to outsource in pursuit of higher margins.

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Time for Grown-ups

Ernest Istook | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Budget, Paul Ryan Budget, Federal Budget Deficit, Tea Party, American Workers, Taxes, Social Security, Government Spending, Path to Prosperity, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Ernest Istook

Paul Ryan's budget plan should be rated at least R for Realism, while the dismissive comments are PG for Politically Guided. His "Path to Prosperity" is about economic growth, not just spending.

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Lila Shapiro

Missing Workers: 4.9 Million Out Of Work And Forgotten

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the last three years, nearly 5 million U.S. workers have effectively gone missing. You won't find their photos on the backs of milk cartons. ...

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Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working Class Got Brainwashed

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Myriam Miedzian

Why do so many working class Americans hold such detrimental false assumptions about their place in American society? Why this disconnect between self-interest and voting patterns?

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The Latino Community Wants Accountability in 2010

Clarissa Martinez De Castro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clarissa Martinez De Castro

The promise of change that energized voting and participation in 2008 is bringing hundreds of Latino community leaders to Washington today.

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Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Clarissa Martinez De Castro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clarissa Martinez De Castro

As if blaming immigrants for global warming, the financial crisis, and every other ill that is currently affecting our society wasn't enough, Mark Kri...

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The Lost Decade: Zero Net Job Creation From 2000-2009

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. ...

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Women-Owned Businesses Generate Huge Revenue, Study Finds

washingtonpost.com | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 05.25.2011

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Women-owned businesses generate about $3 trillion in revenue and employ 16 percent of the workforce, making them significant players in the national e...

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Infrastructure Investment is "Just-Right" Jobs Strategy

Lawrence Mishel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Mishel

How can we build modern transportation, green jobs, energy independence? How do we know that these "shovel-ready" projects are all worthy of our investment?

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The Seventy Percent Solution

Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marco Trbovich

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

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For Recent Grads (and the Rest of Us): Welcome to the Occupation

Tevis Gale | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tevis Gale

Life doles out events that force the issues of unpredictability and personal growth, opening wide with all sorts of experiences that force us to reach into our own depths for wisdom.

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Despite Economic Gains, Americans Wary Of NAFTA

Los Angeles Times | Marla Dickerson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lost Jobs, Rust Belt, Ross Perot, Nafta, American Workers, Mexico, Business News

Four campaign seasons have come and gone since presidential hopeful H. Ross Perot warned that NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound" of jobs going...

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