The Living New Deal and the National Jobs for all Coalition are working together to celebrate the publication of a Map and Guide to New Deal New York City that will be available in Spring 2017. This Map and Guide will demonstrate how the nation’s deteriorated physical, cultural, and environmental resources were vastly improved by the government… Read More Celebrating New Deal New York City: Spring 2017
AUGUST 2016 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.9%*[Analyses] White 4.4% African American 8.1% Hispanic 5.6% Asian** 4.2% Persons with a disability** 11.3% Men 20 years and over 4.5% Women 20 years and over 4.5% Teens (16-19 years) 15.7% Black teens 26.1% Officially unemployed 7.8 million… Read More Unemployment Data – August 2016
In the spring of 2015, Southern California Edison had employees training their replacements. The replacements were immigrants in the U.S. under the H-1B program that is supposed to be about importing skilled workers when employers cannot find skilled workers at home.[1] So my nephew Bob has been watching the presidential campaign. He knows that each… Read More Do Skill and School Deficits Explain Why We Don’t Have Enough Good Jobs?
JULY 2016 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.9%*[Analyses] White 4.3% African American 8.4% Hispanic 5.4% Asian** 3.8% Persons with a disability** 11.1% Men 20 years and over 4.6% Women 20 years and over 4.3% Teens (16-19 years) 15.6% Black teens 25.7% Officially unemployed 7.8 million… Read More Unemployment Data – July 2016
JUNE 2016 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.9%*[Analyses] White 4.4% African American 8.6% Hispanic 5.8% Asian** 3.5% Persons with a disability** 12.1% Men 20 years and over 4.5% Women 20 years and over 4.5% Teens (16-19 years) 16.0% Black teens 31.2% Officially unemployed 7.8 million… Read More Unemployment Data – June 2016
