| JUNE
2008 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)
Officially unemployed: 8.5 million
(5.5%)
Hidden unemployment: 10.3 million
Total:
18.8 million (11.8% of the labor force)
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Social
Security Resources
Coalition
Bi-Annual Report 7/08
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Recent Coalition Work and Activities:
GoodJobsforAll:
Supplement 1, Summer
2008
"Decent
Work & Public Investment,"
Ginsburg & Goldberg, NLF, v17(1), Spr 2008
"Flagging Economy
Needs Public Investment," C.
Bell, Prog. Populist,
3/08
SHARED PROSPERITY AND THE DRIVE
FOR DECENT WORK [Rev.]htm
file Sponsors/Supporters of
legislation
What Ever Happened
to Shared Prosperity?
[flyer]
¿Que
Paso Con La Prosperidad Compartida?
URPE
Joins the Drive for Decent Work/Shared Prosperity
Survey of Full
Employment Advocates
No More Katrinas:
Keep Score on Recovery and America’s Future
No
Mas Katrinas:Llevemos la Cuenta de la Recuperacion
y el Futuro de America
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]
Social Security Flyers [1]
[2]
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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