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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Old Man World Leftovers of the American Century By Tom Engelhardt Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which...
by TomDispatch
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The headline unemployment number is not the number of people who cannot find a job. It is the number of people who are actively looking for a job and cannot find one. �It does not count people, many ...
by angryea
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by angryea
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This cartoon is based on the AP story entitled "Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands" that was recently published here on DK. (It's a long piece, so if you're in a hurry, you can check out the...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Cities across America (and around the world) are proving, with new Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments, how wrong the old Republican canard really is. And what kind of damage it’s done to America during the 80 or so years it’s held the GOP in its...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As you think about the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, consider this: of the CEOs of the three companies being struck,...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 07:08 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. What a criminal enterprise our country truly is. And I do mean enterprise. After all, according to the latest figures, there are…...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 07:17 AM PDT
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I was going to be a lawyer. �
It was a dream that never really died. �When I was eight, I was going to be Perry Mason and free the unjustly convicted. �When I was an early teen, I was going to ...
by angryea
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on Fri Sep 08, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Market hype, with its seductive appeals to dreams of getting rich, gets blasted out 24/7 on various networks, not to mention a slew of financial publications. Yet there is no corresponding entity that reports moment-to-moment on the struggles of...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 04:50 AM PDT
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Here in Floriduh, we keep hearing about the dire teacher shortage, and the nurse shortage and the shortage of child care workers and nursing home workers and …… What I never seem to see in these stories is the fact that professions that are...
by katepez
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 06:55 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, as TomDispatch regular and historian Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion,...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 08:34 AM PDT
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Covid brought multiple benefits to a troubled world. But will we reach out to grasp and retain them? Among the positives to emerge from the global pandemic is an enhanced appreciation of quality of life, as Alan Austin reports. They say a near death experience focuses the mind on what’s really important. They also say few people on their deathbed wish...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 04:24 AM PDT
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G.R.R. Martin may need to get his books done, but he has an important point about the how the studios are going to ruin the future of television:
The juniors may have worked for as long as ...
by angryea
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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With Republicans pushing for work requirements in the debt ceiling negotiations, I thought it might be a good time to give you my unscientific research on this favorite Republican topic: Making people work who don’t want to work! My research comes...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 05:45 PM PDT
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Today’s (5/16/2023) MarketPlace had a story about for profit companies that manage work requirements for welfare programs. It is a prime example of how for profit companies parasitize government welfare programs for their own profit while leaving...
by Glaisne
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on Tue May 16, 2023 at 04:56 PM PDT
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My wife and I don’t keep an alarm clock. The highway serves that purpose. If you live next to an urban highway, you know what I’m talking about. Our home sits at the edge of town next to a four-lane state highway, right where it transitions into a...
by Robert Dobbs
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on Sun May 07, 2023 at 07:48 AM PDT
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I have recently found out that I have been neglected by the so-called medical establishment, resulting in a lot more hassle for me and my family, and I am livid! I am so upset that I don’t even want to write about the details right now. But I had...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat May 06, 2023 at 06:00 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Today’s remarkable tax-time look at what TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon calls “the non-profit industrial complex” reminded me...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 08:49 AM PDT
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Workers at more than 275 Starbucks stores have tried to unionize their workplaces over the past few years. This accounts for�about 3% of the company-owned stores in the United States. During that ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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It is NOT surprising that Elon Musk who fired over 70% of Twitter employees and asked the remaining crew to pick up the slack is now being accused of abusing employees at Tesla factory by having them do the workload of 7 people . . .
by The Boss Gomez
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