#Employment

banker emeritus

Adheydayor

Unemployment rate up to 27.1% in Q2:2020 from 23.1% in Q3:2018. Not as bad as expected on the surface, but the situation is much worse. Underemployment up to 28.6% from

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

I luv what @Mikeggibbs has done here in response to a tweet asking him if he works. Read all the way to the end of the thread. Not every person

Rick Rieder

RickRieder

Extraordinary fiscal and #monetary policies have led to a booming #economy in many areas, which is likely to improve even further as the Covid vaccination effort continues apace and as

Genoveva Islas

VivaciousVeva

Dear Public Health @PHAwakened I am in full support of the Heros Act as I see the immense value in it. I would like to heighten awareness & create space

Emily Porter, M.D.

dremilyportermd

It turns out that getting COVID may have saved my life. It made me take chest pain & shortness of breath seriously enough to get a CT where they found

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers

Mestizo Meditations

MeditarMestizo

Short thread:Here's a baffling truth: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church's 1974 report on race is more race-conscious AND antiracist than most of the recent evangelical discourse I've encountered.https://www.opc.org/GA/race.html&n

Ewan Gibbs

ewangibbs

Scaling back furlough is a dangerous move that will reduce effective demand, create insecurity and precariousness and presumably endanger lives by forcing workers who can’t work from home back to

Nina White

ninaismeblog

Please retweet to spread awareness of Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996! Employees have the right not to suffer a detriment or be dismissed for refusing to work

Austerity is Murder🌹

sdgrumbine

1. We are not on the gold standard and thus the constraints imposed are no longer in play.2. We have a sovereign, non-pegged, non-convertible fiat currency not backed by oil,

CygneNoirFemelle

ThePeeCee

Married parent demographics: a thread. Many believe married parents of children under 18 are mostly Repubs and make "middle class" 50-60k a year and work for small businesses and that

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

As I and others often say, the stock market is not the economy. It never was. But it may be even less the economy than it used to be, according

Brendon Bernard

BrendonBernard_

Tomorrow's March 15-21 LFS report is surely the most anticipated in HISTORY. Here are some things I'll be watching (thread)https://www.hiringlab.org/en-ca/2020/04/07/march-lfs-preview/ (1/n) 1. Unemployment will rise not only from COVID-relat

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

A fascinating early use of the eschewing of 'racist bones' came when the 12 African American players on the Denver Broncos boycotted the team's annual dinner-dance in 1966. 1/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28999313/

the women of kilgore trout’s office

KT_So_It_Goes

thanks very much to the trashgoblins clustering around in harrisburg asserting a right to free refills and ensuring all the progress is immediately undonehttps://twitter.com/kdka/status/1252253652024274944 hundreds of thousands of people sacrificed

Alan #protectlibraryworkers Wylie

wylie_alan

This thread is an excerpt from my dads memoirs, it’s the late 50’s early 60’s in Glasgow and he’s sabotaging machinery and calling wildcat strikes for which he is eventually