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JANUARY 2010 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
          (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)

Officially unemployed: 14.8 million (9.7%)
Hidden unemployment: 14.3 million

Total: 29.1 million (18.3% of the labor force)
[There are now between 11 and 12 job-wanters* for each available job.]
*changed:BLS has revised methodology

Social Security Resources           Coalition Bi-Annual Report 7/08

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Recent Coalition Work and Activities:
The Jobs Summit: A Historic Opportunity for the Obama Adm
National Conference to Create Living-Wage Jobs for All, Meet Human Needs & Sustain the Environment  conference schedule DC37 report Rev. Gary Dorrien, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy, and the Economics of Empire
CALL FOR"FIRST FRIDAY" ACTIONS news coverage
DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK RESOLUTION
DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK
blog
New York Contract Watch
[military contracts]
Job Programs&Stimulus II:What We Can Learn from New Deal Programs
Stricker4/09
"Decent Work & Public Investment," Ginsburg & Goldberg, NLF, v17(1), Spr 2008
SHARED PROSPERITY AND THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK [Rev.]htm file   Sponsors/Supporters of legislation
Drive for Decent Work--gaps, opportunities
What Ever Happened to Shared Prosperity?
[flyer]
¿Que Paso Con La Prosperidad Compartida?
Social Security quiz: What's in It for Younger People? [interactive] [pdf]
Una Prueba: ¿Que Le Ofrece El Seguro Social A Las Personas Jovenes? [interactive] [pdf file]
Facts about Social Security
Military Spending and Jobs: A Quiz
Permanent War Economy
--insert for church bulletins
The Permanent War Economy: Real Security or False Promise?

There is plenty of evidence that unemployment has many far-reaching effects other than loss of income, including psychological harm, loss of work motivation, skill and self-confidence, increase in ailments and morbidity (and even mortality rates), disruption of family relations and social life, hardening of social exclusion and accentuation of racial tensions and gender asymmetries. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), pp.94-95. [Sen is winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.]

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from TO BE OF USE, Marge Piercy

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
  


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