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Basel; Older Workers; Mott's Strike; IMF
(1) Basel III Underwhelms. Global banking regulators came out with new rules on Sunday, mostly regarding capital reserves. Here'
A Plan B for Obama; Education Bubble
(1) What we would like Obama to do: From Thomas Palley's contribution to Martin Wolf's Economists&
Immigrants Build the U.S. Economy
Just one item today, in preparation for Labor Day--a nice post from Mark Engler's blog over at Dissent:
New Issue, Lump of Labor, etc.
(1) 2010 Annual Labor Issue: This year's annual labor issue has printed and will ship out today or
Dear Dr. Dollar:
Many times I have read (in writings by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, for example) or heard it said (by President Obama, for example) that technology is eliminating more manufacturing jobs in the United States than rising imports. Is that true? --Kevin Rath, Oakland, Calif.
Same Output + Fewer Hours = Economic Crisis?
Today's economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure.
We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
Clean-energy investment would promote job growth for a wide swath of the U.S. workforce.
The Fall and Rise of Hotel Worker Unionism
A review of Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes A Movement by Julius Getman (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010).
Magic Mushrooms
It had been a rainy summer in Colorado. No surprise to find mushrooms as we hiked the Andrews Glacier trail
Income Inequality and Financial Crises, NYT, Aug 21
A New York Times article by Louise Story asks, "Do widening gaps between rich and poor necessarily lead to
Unemployment, Austerity, Stimulus
[N.B.: First three items by our fabulous summer intern Elizabeth Murphy, who also chose this post's Possibly