Blue Collar

Should Everyone Get a Chance to Go to College?

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Blue Collar, Republican Primary, College Tuition, Higher Education, Liberals, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, College News

Of all the things that Rick Santorum loves to hate, the latest, and also arguably the oddest, is college. The Republican hopeful's curious antipathy to higher education is a recent development.

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Why Most U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Gone Forever: The Fiscal Times

The Fiscal Times | MERRILL GOOZNER | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Blue Collar, Solar Energy, Video, Blue Collar Jobs, Solar Industry, Industry, Chinese Trade, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Rebound, Manufacturing Recovery, China, Solar Cells, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News

The day after the State of the Union Address, President Obama visited a Phoenix suburb to tour Intel’s still-under-construction computer chip manufa...

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Romney Trawls for White Working-Class Votes in New Hampshire on The Howie Carr Show

Jackson Katz | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Gop, White Working-Class Voters, Talk Radio, New Hampshire Primary, Boston Herald, Mitt Romney, Howie Carr, Republicans, Democrats, Blue-Collar, Barack Obama, Politics News

As the campaign moves to New Hampshire, Mitt Romney is getting free advice on how to reach blue-collar Republicans from conservative talk radio host Howie Carr.

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Occupy Wall Street's Middle Class Vision for the Left

Joan Williams | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Jobs, Blue Collar, We Are the 99%, Occupy Wall Street, Economics, Middle Class, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Business News

When the second Google hit (after Wikipedia) for "corporate cronyism" links to a speech by Sarah Palin, you know why progressives need Occupy Wall Street.

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Men Happier With Work-Life Balance Than Women [GRAPHIC]

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Blue Collar, Part-Time Workers, Video, White Collar, Captivate Network, Workplace, Wages, Miller-Mccune, Work-Life Balance, Infographic, Productivity, Business News

Turns out men are happier than women in the office, at least according to a recent survey by digital media company Captivate Network. After polling 67...

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10 States Where Blue Collar Jobs Are Disappearing

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Blue Collar, Unemployment, California, Great Recession, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Slidepollajax, Vermont, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Video, Business News

24/7 Wall St.: The size of the American blue-collar workforce continued to decline in the last decade. Between 2000 and 2010, the economy lost roughly...

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GOP Ad Uses 'Hicky Blue Collar' Actors Sought In Casting Call

AP / The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casting Call, Blue Collar, Senate, 2010 Elections, West Virginia Senate Race, West Virginia, Hicky, Gop, Political Ads, Robert Byrd, John Raese, Joe Manchin, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Elections 2010, Politics News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The GOP candidate in West Virginia's Senate race is distancing himself from an ad paid for by national Republicans that portrays ...

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What's Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books....

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Betrayal of the Public Trust, Corruption, Financial Crime, Empire, Abuse, Corporation, Economy, Class War, Middle Class, Federal Reserve, Theocracy, Legal, Disinformation, Ideology, Culture, Research & Development, Deceit, Intelligence, Values, Disease, Climate Change, Black Intellectuals, Atrocities, Communications, War as a Racket, Political, Technology, Family, Blue Collar, Computing, Poverty, Treason, Dissent, Evil, Dereliction of Duty, White-Collar Crime, Socio-Economic, Religion, Environmental Degradation, Education, Anger, Geography, Peak Oil, Water, Nature, Demography, Anthropology, Books News

Sun Tzu writes that if you do not know your enemy, AND you do not know yourself, you are destined to fail. The United States of America is not a Repu...

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The Middle Class: How We Got One and Why We Need to Keep it

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar, White Collar, Pink Collar, Values, Middle Class, Upper Middle Class, Lower Middle Class, Wagner Act, Third World America, Politics News

Because of the strong overlap between American values and middle class values, being middle class is often assumed to be the socio-economic state of nature by American. The history of the American middle class, however, is quite different.

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo Alliance, Shenyang Power Group, LTV Steel, Sca, Tianjin Pipe, A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., Green Jobs, United Auto Workers, Renewable Energy, U.S. Commerce Department, BlueGreen Alliance, Unfair Trade, Wind Turbine, Import Duties, Svenska Cellulosa AB, White Collar, Grupo Mexico, Wilbur Ross, Blue Collar, Rio Tinto, Charlie Rose, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Pbs, Manufacturing, U.S. Renewable Energy Group, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing Jobs, Wind Farm, Energy Independence, Jinxiang Lu, Bridgestone-Firestone, Arcelor-Mittal, Severstal, Business News

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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Bobby Kennedy and the ShatterProof Thermos

Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Poor, Llabor, Blue Collar, Class Warfare, Working Class Parable, Working Class, Politics News

As everyone knows, when Jack Kennedy died, he charmed his way past Saint Peter. Slipped in as if getting into Valhalla was no more of a challenge than getting with some pretty blond.

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It's Not Easy Being Blue

Lynn Tilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Blue Collar, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bailout, Financial Services, American Dream, Economy, Middle Class, Manufacturing, Jobs, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Business News

At some point during our transition from manufacturing economy to financial service market, we set a taint on being blue; blue collar, that is.

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Obama and the Invisible Workingman

David Paul Kuhn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Blue Collar, Obama Unemployment, Obama Blue-Collar Workers, Unemployment, Politics News

Obama's agenda has been broad, but he has not been consumed with the crisis of his time. That crisis is blue collar joblessness. It's always been about jobs. Yet the Democratic leadership seems to have only recently noticed.

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Employment Recovery Needs Focus On

forbes.com | Joel Kotkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Blue Collar, Unemployment, Environmental Policy, Barack Obama, Employment, Business News

White House operatives, as well as the Democrats in Congress, know high unemployment could bring big political trouble next year. But in their rush to...

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President Obama Ties Reform To Rebuilding Middle Class

POLITICO | Carol E. Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar, General Motors, Public Option, Middle Class, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Afl-Cio, Richard Trumka, Politics News

PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama delivered his most strongly worded speech in defense of organized labor since taking office - tying health care r...

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Happy Labor Day: an Oxymoron

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holidays, Blue Collar, Baseball, White Collar, Labor Day Weekend, Football, Rodney Dangerfield, Labor Day, Comedy, Comedy News

There are no fireworks to watch or ugly birds to cook or chocolate covered bunnies to steal marshmallows from. Just one Monday off for all those ordinary guys and gals trying to make ends meet.

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Pop Your Blue Collar: The Case For Working With Your Hands

New York Times Magazine | Matthew B. Crawford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jobs, Careers, Blue Collar, White Collar, Work, Health, Healthy Living News

The television show "Deadliest Catch" depicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, "Dirty Jobs," shows all kinds of grueling work; on...

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The Nasty Class and Anti-Union Bias of Auto Bailout Opposition, or the Wall Street-Detroit Double Standard

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar, Auto Bailout, Uaw, Class Warfare, Wall Street Crisis, Wages, Pensions, Compensation, Executive Compensation, Health Care, Business News

Nancy Pelosi says the Congressional Republicans are playing Russian Roulette with the economy by refusing to agree to an auto industry bailout. But f...

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Taxes Are Not Always A Bad Thing

Jennifer Bernard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar, John McCain, Food Stamps, Barack Obama, Middle Class, Joe the Plumber, Barack Obama Taxes, Poor, Election 2008, Obama Middle Class, Campaign 2008, McCain Taxes, Home News

The taxes on Joe-the-Plumber's $250,000 bought me my first-grade textbooks when my family was on food stamps. I do not feel guilty that Joe may have had to drink less-expensive champagne that year so that I could have a sandwich for dinner.

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Working Class White Voters Are Ditching McCain

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Blue Collar, Blue Collar Voters, Working Class, Obama Working Class, Barack Obama, Working Class White Voters Are Ditching Mccain, Poverty, Politics News

KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and...

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Obama Campaign Target: Blue-Collar Women Face Worst Gender Gap

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Gap, Women, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Blue Collar, Education, Discrimination, Politics News

Except among the highest earners, women with only a high school degrees face the highest gender gaps compared with men at their own education level.

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How to Grab the Attention of Undecided Voters

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mark Warner, Soccer Moms, Blue Collar, US Military, John McCain, Deval Patrick, Middle Class, Kathleen Sebelius, Sex Offenders, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Rural Communities, National Guard, Keynote Speech, School Uniforms, State of the Union Address, Medicare, Health Care, Lower-Income, Dnc, Democratic National Convention, 2008 Election, Denver, Politics News

Small details, exact costs, specifics, particulars -- all are fatal to a convention speech. Just ask Bill Clinton as he walked off the podium after delivering his keynote address at the 1988 Democratic Convention.

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McCain to Hold "Virtual Town Hall" To Woo Clintonistas

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Collar, Clinton Voters, John McCain, M.S. Bellows Jr., Virtual Town Hall, Hardworking White, 2008 Election, Feminists, Clintonistas, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Warrantless Wiretaps, Cnn, Home News

The Lieberman-inspired move to woo non-Republicans is designed to look like nonpartisanship, but it's really about maximizing the schism that the Clinton campaign created in the Democratic base.

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Edwards' Endorsement Frees Obama In Picking Running Mate

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Off the Bus, Vice President, Blue Collar, John Edwards Endorses Obama, West Virginia, John Edwards, Running Mate, Hillary Clinton, Breaking Off the Bus News, Rural, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, White Voters, Home News

Clinton doesn't help Obama with his electoral map in November. He needs someone who has both pull in the states he wants to win and who can help repair rifts with rural white voters. Two names immediately come to mind.

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The $109 Million Dollar Question: Is Clinton Really A Populist?

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

This weekend, as Clinton defended her gas tax proposal against what she described as the "elite opinion" of professional economists, I, like so many others, had to ask the obvious question: Since when does a Clinton get off as such a populist?

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