nesssessidadess: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Cut & Bleeding: Austerity-bitten Spain stands up in fury - YouTube

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better :: Articles :: 99U

Work Experience (Photo credit: Olly Farrell)

Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better :: Articles :: 99U:

"A significant body of research now suggests that conflict among teams is good, especially when that fighting is focused around creative ideas. If everyone on a team is always in agreement, it can mean that they don't have very many ideas, or that the team values cohesiveness and lack of conflict more than generating and evaluating ideas. Either way, an overly cohesive environment may be standing in the way of producing outstanding creative work."

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Has extended Baby Boomer employment negatively affected the labor force activity of the young during the Great Recession?

The baby falling into a hole in Baby Boomer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Has extended Baby Boomer employment negatively affected the labor force activity of the young during the Great Recession?

The notion that younger and older workers are engaged in a zero-sum game for a fixed number of jobs is called the “lump-of-labor” theory. This issue brief explores whether this theory has held true, and presents a series of key findings, including:

The lump-of-labor theory did not hold true during the Great Recession: there is no evidence that employment by Baby Boomers negatively impacted the labor force activity of younger workers.

Just as during the Great Recession, over the last several decades, an increase in older workers’ employment has been associated with an increase in younger workers’ employment rate and hours worked.

This relationship between older and younger workers’ labor force behavior also holds true within states.

This relationship does not vary by education level or by gender.
Older workers’ employment has no negative impact on the hourly wages or annual incomes of youth.

Understanding these labor market dynamics is crucial for understanding a full picture of how to support upward economic mobility for youth and prevent downward economic mobility for older workers

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes? - David A. Graham - The Atlantic

Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes? - David A. Graham - The Atlantic:

"Mitt Romney says citizens who don't pay income tax will never vote for him. But eight of the top 10 states with the highest number of nonpayers are red states."

Sunday, September 16, 2012

How Safe Is Verizon's Juicy Dividend? - Seeking Alpha

How Safe Is Verizon's Juicy Dividend? - Seeking Alpha:

"Verizon is consistently showing an upward trend in its Wireline segment. It recently recorded a 2.5 percent year-over-year boost in customer revenues, the best in many years. The Average Revenue per User (ARPU) registered by Wireline now tops $100 per month, with 65 percent of customer revenues produced by FiOS. In fact, Wireline has had 134,000 FIOS Internet and 120,000 FIOS video net additions, as well as continually elevated sales penetration for both products."

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Romney Bashes Labor Unions. Do We Still Need Unions? - YouTube

Romney Bashes Labor Unions. Do We Still Need Unions? - YouTube: ""

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Leesburg: No Back Room Deals for the 1%

Leesburg: No Back Room Deals for the 1%:

"As the 14th major round of closed-door negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership gets under way in northern Virginia, join Citizens Trade Campaign and our labor, environmental, consumer, public health, family farm and other social justice allies at the TPP: Out of the Shadows! Rally for Good Jobs, Affordable Medicine & a Healthy Environment at 3:00pm on Sunday, September 9 outside the Lansdowne Resort at 44050 Woodridge Parkway in Leesburg."

Child Labor & Lewis Hine - a set on Flickr

Child Labor & Lewis Hine - a set on Flickr:

"Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) portrayed working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924."

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Off-shoring call center jobs depresses economy - Letters to the Editor - MiamiHerald.com

Off-shoring call center jobs depresses economy - Letters to the Editor - MiamiHerald.com: "The U.S. call-center industry is an underappreciated economic engine — one that has been devastated by offshoring. The industry represents approximately 3 percent of our overall workforce, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. However, offshoring is largely responsible for more than 500,000 industry job losses between 2006 and 2010."

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James Hoffa, Teamsters President, Says Romney 'Wants To Annihilate Organized Labor'

James Hoffa, Teamsters President, Says Romney 'Wants To Annihilate Organized Labor':

""He wants to annihilate organized labor as we know it," Hoffa told HuffPost outside the Democratic National Convention this week. "It's on his website. I'm not making this up. He's for a national right-to-work law. The Republican Party has veered dangerously to the right. It's rather incredible, in 2012, if you think about it.""

Massachusetts Says NO! to a Romney-Bain Economy - YouTube

Massachusetts Says NO! to a Romney-Bain Economy - YouTube: ""

Thursday, September 6, 2012

1920's - What The Future Will Look Like - YouTube

1920's - What The Future Will Look Like - YouTube:

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Banned Mastercard Priceless Commercial: The Milkman - YouTube

Banned Mastercard Priceless Commercial: The Milkman - YouTube: ""

Monday, September 3, 2012

Opinion: Organized labor lifts up the middle class | NJ.com

Opinion: Organized labor lifts up the middle class | NJ.com:

"Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that we all should make $12 an hour, have no defined benefits, no sick or vacation time and no pensions. Would this make everyone happy because everyone would be in the same boat? This is what corporations want us to do. They use the threat of cheaper labor against middle-class wage earners and keep workers busy fighting one another so that they won’t notice the corporations’ profit margins and their over-the-top executive pay and lush benefits.

While we were arguing over who should get a pension, Wall Street robbed billions of dollars from the middle class and its perpetrators went unpunished. Elected officials all the way up to the White House let the Wall Street crowd off the hook."

The reality of class warfare in America - San Antonio Economic Policy | Examiner.com

Pie chart of the percentage distribution of 2+ income households in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The reality of class warfare in America - San Antonio Economic Policy | Examiner.com:

"At the first level, it makes no sense due to what it ultimately costs the wealthy in terms of the fortunes they amass. By 2008 the income of the wealthiest had declined during the economic disaster caused by the policies of the political ideologues whom they support, the Republicans. Their income declined by an amount approximating the income level of those whose earnings are in the top 5% - 10%. They not only lost that income, but the basis upon which their principal source of income is earned, investment, for the duration of the economic downturn. As long as they believe that the turn their fortunes took will be temporary, that their earnings will recover and continue to rise, and they have no expectation of the second level of consequence for their audacity in waging class warfare, the wealthy are not likely to change their behavior."
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Minimum Wage Raise is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America | Op-Eds & Columns

English: This is a history of minimum wage increases under the 1938 act. This is current as of September 2009, with the inflation adjustment going to August 2009, the latest data. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Minimum Wage Raise is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America | Op-Eds & Columns:

"The federal minimum wage is just $7.25 an hour and hasn’t been raised in three years. But a raise is much more overdue than that. If we look at the minimum wage 44 years ago, and simply adjust it for inflation, it would be more than $10 today.

This is another ugly symptom of what has gone wrong in America over the past 35-40 years. From 1979-2007 about 60 percent of the income gains have gone to the now infamous 1 percent at the top, with the majority of those gains going to the top 0.1 percent – people who made, on average, $5.6 million per year."

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Henry Ford, When Capitalists Cared - NYTimes.com

Portrait of Henry Ford (ca. 1919) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Henry Ford, When Capitalists Cared - NYTimes.com:

"IN the rancorous debate over how to get the sluggish economy moving, we have forgotten the wisdom of Henry Ford. In 1914, not long after the Ford Motor Company came out with the Model T, Ford made the startling announcement that he would pay his workers the unheard-of wage of $5 a day.

Not only was it a matter of social justice, Ford wrote, but paying high wages was also smart business. When wages are low, uncertainty dogs the marketplace and growth is weak. But when pay is high and steady, Ford asserted, business is more secure because workers earn enough to become good customers. They can afford to buy Model Ts."