by admin | Dec 7, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Unofficially our unemployment rate is 12.5% the highest in recent record. And if we consider UNDERemployment rates we’re in even poorer shape. This is how Obama responds: On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered...
by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
According to the Labor Department, the number of unemployed workers rose by 251,000 in November. But the number of people who were outside of the labor force — that is, neither working nor looking for work — rose by much more: 637,000. These people aren’t counted as...
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
I got this from Grace Boggs. Worth reading, posting, and re-posting: ….. Our Time is Not the 1930s By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008 Two weeks ago in my first post- election column, I wrote that I will not be among those organizing or...
by admin | Nov 23, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Public Policy, Racial Politics |
The last few cabinets have been remarkably diverse compared to the ones preceding them. Clinton had the most diverse administration in history, and I believe that Bush followed that up. We’re now getting some sense about Obama’s leaks and already some are...
by admin | Nov 22, 2008 | Democracy, Education, The Mass Media |
In the wake of what is sure to be the end of the world as we know it–and this doesn’t have to sound as apocalyptic as I make it seem–some are asking whether we are culturally prepared for the oncoming shift. There are over 42 million American...
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