By Frank Stricker September 14, 2025 Information in the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation for August and the National Jobs for All Network’s (NJFAN) Full Count, compiled by June Zaccone, reflect an economy that is not stagnating, but also one that shows signs of a slowdown ahead. The unemployment rate rose by a… Read More The Employment Report for August 2025: Stagflation On The Way?
by Frank Stricker August 12, 2025 The official unemployment rate was 4.1% in June. It had been 4.2% in July. It’s been one or the other for the last year. (Just prior to that, in April and May of 2024, the rates were 3.9% and 4%.) Yet for many specific subsets of the general rate,… Read More July 2025: Jobs and Hints of Recession
Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor. Harper Business, 2025 by Trudy Goldberg Economist Juliet Schor and her colleagues conducted the largest trial of the reduced work week ever to take place—245 organizations, eighty-seven hundred employees, in eight countries on four continents.… Read More Book Review: Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor
Professor June Hopkins We are pleased to present a summary of Professor June Hopkins’ presentation to the Columbia Seminar Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity (May 12, 2025): “A Social Worker’s Fight for Full Employment.” Professor Hopkins is the granddaughter and biographer of New Deal Relief Administrator and Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins. Attending the presentation were June Hopkins’… Read More Harry Hopkins, A Social Worker’s Fight for Full Employment
Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand “meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages” for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one. Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled. Join the Center for Economic Policy Research’s webinar… Read More 8/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar > Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?
