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Greek addicts turn to deadly sisha drug as economic crisis deepens

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Helena Smith - May. 17 (News Analysis) - Growing popularity of 'cocaine of the poor' in Athens has overwhelmed public health authorities already under strain Nobody knows which came first: the economic crisis tearing Greece apart or shisha, the drug now known as the "cocaine of the poor".

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We need to talk about masculinity

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Laurie Penny - May. 17 (Opinion) - The crisis facing men and boys cannot be solved by reviving the tired stereotypes that oppress and constrain them We need to talk about masculinity. Across a country torn by recession and struggling to adapt to social change, men and boys are feeling lost and powerless, unsure what the future holds and what role they might play in it. Most feel as if they're not allowed to question what it means to be a man today – or discuss what it might mean tomorrow. The Labour MP Diane Abbott, launching a new campaign this week, is not the first person to kick up a fuss about this "crisis of masculinity". In a speech to the thinktank Demos on Thursday she said that millions of young men are in distress, acting out violently or sinking into depression. Unfortunately, the only solution many in the audience could offer is not giving men and boys more power over their own lives, but restoring their traditional power over women, as "breadwinners" and "male providers". Nobody seems to have bothered to ask ...

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Joe Biden’s Productivity Piffle

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - May. 16 (Fact Check) - Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed that U.S. workers “are three times as productive as any worker in the world.” He’s not even close. By the standard measure for productivity, American workers ranked third in the world behind Norway and Ireland in 2011. Biden also stated that the U.S. economy … More >>

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Pay People to Cook at Home

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KRISTIN WARTMAN - May. 11 (Opinion) - But how do we get there? For many of us, whether we are full-time workers or full-time parents, this home-cooked meal is a fantasy removed from the reality of everyday life. And so Americans continue to rely on highly processed and refined foods that are

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Survivor Found in Bangladesh Disaster Rubble

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Voice of America - By Anjana Pasricha - May. 10 (News Report) - Emergency workers in Bangladesh have rescued a woman who survived 17 days buried in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory complex, as the death toll from the disaster rose to more than 1,000.

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Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 09 (News Report) - Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and operated business. Almost a year to the day after their window factory closed, a group of former workers have launched their own window business without bosses. They successfully raised money to buy the factory collectively and run it democratically. In 2008, some of the workers were involved in a famous six-day sit-in after Republic Windows and Doors gave workers just three days’ notice before closing the factory. The sit-in drew national attention and union workers reached a settlement where they each received $6,000 each. About 65 workers occupied the factory after their jobs came under threat again in 2012. We speak to two worker-owners of the just-opened New Era Windows Cooperative and a labor organizer who helped with their fight.

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Deficit Reduction Is Seen by Economists as Impeding Recovery

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ackie Calmes, Jonathan Weisman - May. 09 (News Report) - After two years of stalemate on how to spur job creation and slash deficits, the consensus is that fiscal tightening has been a drag on economic recovery.

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Stop the Plunder of Africa

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KOFI ANNAN - May. 09 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Stop the Plunder of Africa

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10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Stephanie Kelton - May. 08 (News Analysis) - When we allow our economy to operate below full employment (as now), we are sacrificing trillions of dollars in lost output and income each year. We can never go back and recover it. It is gone forever. You’ve seen the debt clock? Here’s the lost output clock.

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Krugman Exposes the Hypocrisy of Fiscal Conservatives

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Tracy Bloom - May. 07 (News Analysis) - In his latest column for The New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that the case for economic austerity has collapsed, though that hasn’t stopped the pro-austerity faction from continuing to push for deep spending cuts.

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JOLTS Data Offer Depressing Snapshot Of Job Market

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Mark Gongloff - May. 07 (News Report) - If it wasn't clear before, it's clear now: Employers just aren't hiring. The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday released its latest Job Openings And Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) , a less-famous read on the job market than Friday's jobs report . The

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Chutzpah Caucus

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:08:14 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL KRUGMAN - May. 06 (Opinion) - Looking for realism in all the wrong places.

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Do visas for skilled foreigners shut out U.S. tech workers?

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Kyung M. Song, Janet I. Tu - May. 05 (Special Report) - Though he was then in his late 50s, Erickson figured the drumbeat of complaints from Microsoft and other tech companies about a dearth of good applicants promised an easy career switch. Nine months past his graduation, however, Erickson has yet to find full-time work. “When I saw my (philosophy) career was going to be over, I retrained myself,” Erickson, now 60, said. “What good is that if I’m not actually going to get a job?”

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Brittany villages blazing a trail in energy self-sufficiency

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Hervé Kempf - May. 05 (News) - Residents of Côtes D'Armor in northern France hope a series of green schemes can also reinvigorate the local economy Jacky Aignel, the leader of Saint Gouéno council in Brittany, looks at the cranes hoisting blades to the top of a wind-mast: "We've been waiting so long for this," he sighs.

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Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jared Bernstein - May. 04 (Opinion) - Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

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College Graduates Fare Well in Jobs Market, Even Through Recession

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Rampell - May. 04 (News Analysis) - College Graduates Fare Well in Jobs Market, Even Through Recession

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How Two Secretive Global Trade Deals Will Further Enrich the American Elite

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Dean Baker - May. 02 (News Analysis) - the Obama administration is pursuing two major "free trade" agreements that in fact have very little to do with free trade and are likely to hurt those without the money and power to be part of the game. The deals in questions, the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP) and the US-European Union "Free Trade" Agreement are both being pushed as major openings to trade that will increase growth and create jobs. In fact, eliminating trade restrictions is a relatively small part of both agreements

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Reinhart, Rogoff Backing Furiously Away From Austerity Movement

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Mark Gongloff - May. 02 (News Report) - Under steady attack after their seminal research was found to be riddled with errors, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff are making a show of backing away from the austerity that their research encouraged. They claim that their views on austerity have never changed, but the record tells a different story. They're still trying to have it both ways -- advocating for government belt-tightening while trying to avoid being seen as political.

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As Bangladesh Toll Hits 400, Calls Grow to Grant Workers the Same Protections as Labels They Make

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 01 (News Analysis) - "We need to stand up and just say, 'You can bring anything you want into the United States, but you're not bringing it in if it was made by children or the workers are denied their right to organize.’ The lift that would give to the Bangladeshi labor movement would be enormous."

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Jeb Bush’s Jobs Claim

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - May. 01 (Fact Check) - In touting conservative policies in Republican-controlled states, Jeb Bush claimed, “The Southeast is leading a renaissance in American manufacturing.” Not so. The Midwest has experienced a 9 percent increase in manufacturing jobs since the sector began its recovery in February 2010. That’s double the growth rate of the nine states … More >>

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The Story of Our Time

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL KRUGMAN - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - A refresher on our economic woes, and why this is a very bad time for cuts.

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Explaining the upper crust’s preference for austerity economics

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - At this point, the austerian position has imploded; not only have its predictions about the real world failed completely, but the academic research invoked to support that position has turned out to be riddled with errors, omissions and dubious statistics. Yet two big questions remain. First, how did austerity doctrine become so influential in the first place? Second, will policy change at all now that crucial austerian claims have become fodder for late-night comics?

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Sequester politics: Claims about the FAA furloughs

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Apr. 25 (Fact Check) - “The FAA is furloughing thousands of air traffic controllers and will purposely delay thousands of flights every day. The FAA’s unnecessary and reckless action will disrupt air travel for millions of Americans, cost jobs and threatens to ground the U.S. economy to a halt. It doesn’t have to be that way. The FAA can make other cost cuts, and deem air traffic controllers ‘essential employees.’” Read full article ...

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Crisis for Europe as trust hits record low

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Traynor - Apr. 25 (News Analysis) - Poll in European Union's six biggest countries finds Euroscepticism is soaring amid bailouts and spending cuts Public confidence in the European Union has fallen to historically low levels in the six biggest EU countries, raising fundamental questions about its democratic legitimacy more than three years into the union's worst ever crisis, new data shows. After financial, currency and debt crises, wrenching budget and spending cuts, rich nations' bailouts of the poor, and surrenders of sovereign powers over policymaking to international technocrats, Euroscepticism is soaring to a degree that is likely to feed populist anti-EU politics and frustrate European leaders' efforts to arrest the collapse in support for their project. Figures from Eurobarometer , the EU's polling organisation, analysed by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, show a vertiginous decline in trust in the EU in countries such as Spain, Germany and Italy that are historically very pro-European. ...

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Study: There may not be a shortage of American STEM graduates after all

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang - Apr. 25 (News Report) - ..The EPI study found that the United States has “more than a sufficient supply of workers available to work in STEM occupations.” Basic dynamics of supply and demand would dictate that if there were a domestic labor shortage, wages should have risen. Instead, researchers found, they’ve been flat, with many Americans holding STEM degrees unable to enter the field and a sharply higher share of foreign workers taking jobs in the information technology industry.

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