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What the Poverty Rate Tells Us About the Overall Economy

September 16, 2014 Editor

From yesterday’s NYT “The UpShot” Blog by Jared Bernstein: On Tuesday, the Census Bureau will tell us whether the share of population that’s officially in poverty went up, down or…

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Summer Job Isn’t What It Used to Be

September 10, 2014 Editor

From NYT “OpTalk” Blog, September 9, 2014 by Anna Altman: Once upon a time, hard-working high school students who took a summer job or worked part-time during the school year…

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Wages for Housework?

September 10, 2014 Editor

From today’s NYT “Room For Debate” Blog: Housework is a necessary labor for families, but it is largely unpaid, except when others are hired to do it. Families may pay…

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Some Retail Workers Find Better Deals With Unions

September 8, 2014 Editor

From NYT September 7 by Rachel Swarns: By now, the hardships endured by retail workers at clothing stores across New York City are achingly familiar: the frantic scramble to get…

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Fast-Food Workers Seeking $15 Wage Planning Civil Disobedience

September 3, 2014 Editor

From NYT September 1 by Steven Greenhouse: The next round of strikes by fast-food workers demanding higher wages is scheduled for Thursday, and this time labor organizers plan to increase…

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End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email

August 29, 2014 Editor

From yesterday’s NYT “Opinion” by Clive Thompson: This Labor Day weekend, odds are you’ll peek at your work email on your “day off” — and then feel guilty about it.…

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The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism

August 29, 2014 Editor

From NYT “Opinion” August 26, 2014 by Thomas Edsall: In Orange County, Calif., the probation department’s “supervised electronic confinement program,” which monitors the movements of low-risk offenders, has been outsourced…

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When Tech Makes Work Worse

August 20, 2014 Editor

From yesterday’s NYT “Op-Talk” Blog by Anna North: When we talk about robots taking people’s jobs, we often mean it almost literally — we envision if not the humanoid androids…

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A New Report Argues Inequality Is Causing Slower Growth. Here’s Why It Matters.

August 5, 2014 Editor

From today’s NYT blog “The Upshot” by Neil Irwin: Is income inequality holding back the United States economy? A new report argues that it is, that an unequal distribution in…

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Growth Without Jobs

August 3, 2014 Editor

From yesterday’s NYT editorial: In a statement last Wednesday — just hours after the government reported headline-grabbing economic growth of 4 percent in the second quarter —the Federal Reserve said…