#Employment

The staff at student centers really are out of touch It’s taking so much of me not to ask “are you being serious?!” Every time they make a snide
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This is very true. Also, this can partly be addressed without necessarily identifying specific private locations, but by reporting occupation. Racial capitalism shapes risk, shown by race+income-disaggregated data. Cases and
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Legal immigration is a positive for the American economy, and visa programs allowing American companies to secure qualified, legal labor throughout the world have benefitted economic growth in the United
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In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go
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“...no Book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.” John Quincy Adams’s advice to his twelve-year-old son George Washington Adams,
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Much of #economicpolicy aims to 'fight' #unemployment. This is entirely unnecessary, because there is no such thing as lasting involuntary unemployment. This is unfortunately little understood today, but it is
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Another @UMDLabovitz "study" about MN mining and employment - which is *nothing more* than asking mining companies how many people they think they will employ in the future and multiplying
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Today is world #AutismAwareness day or #AutismAcceptance day (whatever stage you are at). I really wish I could hug my family, students, and friends with autism today. Right now
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I'm seeing the claim that Victoria is at its "highest ever" level of unemployment. It struck me as wrong so I went back to the 1931 census and took at
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The Fed revamped its policy framework today. Now that the stories are put to bed, I thought I'd do a quick thread on the history that got us to this
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My dad ran a tech company through the nineties, and periodically after he retired former colleagues would come round for career advice. And one time one guy came round who
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Dear Govt of Zimbabwe: With the post-Covid19 economic policy changes in #SouthAfrica where Finance Minister @tito_mboweni has announced R300 billion to save the economy & prioritise employment of native South
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THREAD: As requested, here's my slides on 'Covid-19 & Young Disabled People', from my talk with @Aberdeen_Youth! It was a very interesting discussion, w/ topics such as the #SunflowerLanyard &
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New from me: the pandemic meant an increase in housework. In straight marriages, that labour has fallen mostly to women. An expert said, "I don’t think it’s that fathers are
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We really do need to #PWRDOWN the hated and bigoted culture that has been cultivated in the gaming scene. creators think they can be toxic so their fans think the
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A respectful PSA to any of you who may have mistakenly followed me thinking I would only interview people you adore.I'm a journalist. I have interviewed AOC and Steve Bannon,
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