| JANUARY
2012 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)
Officially unemployed: 12.8 million
(8.3%)
Hidden unemployment: 14.5 million
Total:
27.3 million (17.0% of the labor force)
[There are now more than 8
job-wanters* for each available job.]
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*Vigils are temporarily suspended, pending
legislative developments on a jobs bill.
Recent Coalition Work and Activities:
FIRST FRIDAY VIGIL FOR JOBS
call
The Jobs Crisis: How to Solve It & Begin to Fix Our Broken Economy, Goldberg & Rosenthal, New Politics, Winter 2011
How Growing Inequality Led to Shrinking Democracy, Meltdown, & Mass Unemployment, T. Goldberg
Federal Debt: Who Ran up the Bill? Who’ll
Pay It?, J. Zaccone
Back
To Work: A Public Jobs Proposal For Economic Recovery
P. Harvey, Demos
Jobs Legislation Before Congress
Take Action Jobs
Proposals
NJFAC
flyer on
jobs crisis--
discuss
jobs with your neighbors
Facts
about Social Security 2011
Social Security Resources
The Jobs Summit: A Historic Opportunity
for the Obama Adm
National Conference
to Create Living-Wage
Jobs for All, Meet Human Needs &
Sustain the Environment conference
schedule DC37
report Rev. Gary Dorrien, Economic
Crash, Economic Democracy, and the Economics of Empire
Learning from the New Deal [jobs
programs] , Philip Harvey
Report on Organizational Activities
in Behalf of Job Creation, T.Goldberg,
3/10
Unemployment
Insurance Extension May Be Short-Lived,
J. Bloom, WDL10/10
DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK RESOLUTION
DRIVE
FOR DECENT WORK blog
New
York Contract Watch [military
contracts]
Job
Programs&Stimulus II:What We Can Learn from New Deal Programs
Stricker4/09
"Decent
Work & Public Investment,"
Ginsburg & Goldberg, NLF, v17(1), Spr 2008
SHARED PROSPERITY AND THE DRIVE
FOR DECENT WORK [Rev.]htm
file Sponsors/Supporters of
legislation
Drive for Decent Work--gaps, opportunities
What Ever Happened
to Shared Prosperity?
[flyer]
¿Que
Paso Con La Prosperidad Compartida?
Social
Security quiz: What's in It for Younger People? [interactive]
[pdf]
Una Prueba:
¿Que Le Ofrece El Seguro Social A Las Personas Jovenes?
[interactive] [pdf file]
Military Spending
and Jobs: A Quiz
Permanent War Economy--insert
for church bulletins
The Permanent War Economy: Real Security
or False Promise?
There
is plenty of evidence that unemployment has many far-reaching
effects other than loss of income, including psychological harm,
loss of work motivation, skill and self-confidence, increase in
ailments and morbidity (and even mortality rates), disruption
of family relations and social life, hardening of social exclusion
and accentuation of racial tensions and gender asymmetries.
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), pp.94-95. [Sen is winner of
the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.]
from
TO BE OF USE, Marge Piercy
The
work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
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