| JUNE
2009 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)
Officially unemployed: 14.7 million
(9.5%)
Hidden unemployment: 14.9 million
Total:
29.6 million (18.4% of the labor force)
[There are now more
than 11 job-wanters* for each available job.]
*changed:BLS has revised methodology
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GoodJobsforAll:
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"Jumpstart the
Economy," NYTimes letter, Bell
& Goldberg, 8/08
"Advice
for Obama on the Economy," NYTimes letter, Rosenthal,
1/09
"Decent
Work & Public Investment,"
Ginsburg & Goldberg, NLF, v17(1), Spr 2008
"Flagging Economy
Needs Public Investment," C.
Bell, Prog. Populist,
3/08
SHARED PROSPERITY AND THE DRIVE
FOR DECENT WORK [Rev.]htm
file Sponsors/Supporters of
legislation
What Ever Happened
to Shared Prosperity?
[flyer]
¿Que
Paso Con La Prosperidad Compartida?
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Joins the Drive for Decent Work/Shared Prosperity
Survey of Full Employment Advocates
No More Katrinas:
Keep Score on Recovery and America’s Future
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Mas Katrinas:Llevemos la Cuenta de la Recuperacion
y el Futuro de America
Social Security quiz: What's
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¿Que Le Ofrece El Seguro Social A Las Personas Jovenes?
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Military Spending
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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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