The incredible shrinking labor force Washington Post ...About 41 percent of the unemployed have been out of work for more than 27 weeks, and economists have found that as workers remain jobless for extended periods of time, their skills erode, their work contacts move on, their motivation wanes and they have difficulty returning to the labor force when the economy picks back up...
Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships New York Times ...practice, there is little to stop employers from exploiting interns...
Bank of America’s Protection Detail firedoglake ... Charlotte has imposed special rules on a 2 block by 2 block square for 12 hours on Wednesday (May 9) to protect the Bank of America annual shareholder meeting from disruption by protesters...
Interesting facts about buying American-made products Manufacture This ...$10 a day spent on U.S. made products would cause wages to rise...
Madness in Spain Lingers as Ireland Chases Recovery Bloomberg ... Developers ... continue to build even with 2 million homes vacant around the country, new airports that never saw a single flight being mothballed, and property appraisers and banks reporting values have fallen only about 22 percent, said Encinar, who estimates the real decline is probably at least twice that...
Employers pull back on hiring, but jobless rate drops; trucking adds 1,800 jobs Associated Press ...For-hire trucking picked up 1,800 jobs for the month, after losing 1,900 in March. The preliminary April number for trucking is better than the same month a year ago by 38,500 jobs, and it's 99,300 jobs better than March 2010, the low point in the downturn. But the current total is still 120,800 jobs shy of the industry peak in early 2007 — a slip of 8.3 percent...
Against Chairs Jacobin ...the American Cancer Society wrapped up a fourteen-year longitudinal study of 120,000 participants and discovered that sitting for extended periods during the day dramatically increased participants’ risk of death...
