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MAY 2013 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)
Officially unemployed: 11.8 million
(7.6%)
Hidden unemployment 14.6 million
Total:
26.4 million (16.3%
of the labor force)
[There are now nearly 7 job-wanters*
for each available job.]
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An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
Friday, October 18, 2013 Columbia University Faculty House: Rep.
John Conyers, Dean Baker, William Darity, Gary Dorrien, Philip
Harvey, Sheila Collins, Gertrude Goldberg, Helen Ginsburg
Humphrey-HawkinsFull
Employment & Training Act [HR 1000]Conyers Bill]
Co-Sponsors HH-1000 Summary
Coalition Work and Activities
An Answer to Unemployment:
A Jobs-for-All Bill
Conyers & Harvey
The Fiscal Cliff: Why a Solution to Unemployment
is the Key 5/13
CBO Estimates of Cyclically-Adjusted
Deficit:Shrinking 3/13
A Debate on Back
to Full Employment, Harvey and Pollin
Newsletter, Fall
2012
Jobs Legislation Before Congress
Take Action Jobs
Proposals AFSCME Resol
Facts about Social
Security 2013,
NJFAC, 6/13
Has Globalization Destroyed the American
Middle Class? Zaccone 5/12
The
Struggle for Full Employment: Not a New Idea & Not a New Struggle
[video]
Can
the Jobs Gap Be Filled through Temporary Public-sector Positions?Harvey
3/12 FRB, Atlanta See also Goldberg,
Temporary Emergency Relief Adm
Trudy
Goldberg speaks at United States of Unemployment
[video] [May
Day]
from the Review of Black Political Economy:
Goldberg, Challenges
to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation
Ginsburg, Full Employment
and Employment as a Right
Harvey,
Learning from the New Deal
The
Jobs Crisis: How to Solve It & Begin to Fix Our Broken Economy
Goldberg & Rosenthal, New Politics, Winter
2011
How Growing Inequality Led to Shrinking
Democracy, Meltdown, & Mass Unemployment, Goldberg
9/11
Federal Debt: Who
Ran up the Bill? Who’ll Pay It?,
Zaccone [rev .6/12]
Back
To Work: A Public Jobs Proposal For Economic Recovery
Harvey, Demos
NJFAC
flyer on
jobs crisis-- discuss jobs with
your neighbors
Facts about
Social Security 2012
FIRST FRIDAY VIGIL
FOR JOBS call
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
Learning from
the New Deal [jobs programs] ,
Philip Harvey
DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK RESOLUTION
DRIVE
FOR DECENT WORK blog
Job
Programs&Stimulus II:What We Can Learn from New Deal Programs
Stricker, 4/09
"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
¿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]
Military
Spending and Jobs: A Quiz
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.]
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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