Police arrest 5 more activists for feeding homeless
Mark Schlueb Orlando Sentinel Orlando police arrested five more activists from behind a makeshift buffet table at Lake Eola Park on Wednesday evening, bringing to…
Employment
Bernanke sees ‘loss of momentum’ in jobs market
© AFP/Getty Images/File Scott Olson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – After a slew of wretched economic news, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned there had…
State, local governments set to see record job cuts, layoffs
Wiki Image Tami Luhby Yahoo Finance Don’t look to state and local governments to prop up the job market. To the contrary, this cash-strapped sector…
US new jobs plunged in May; jobless rate up
© AFP/Getty Images/File Spencer Platt AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of jobs generated by the US economy plunged in May and inflation continued to…
10 Reasons Why The “Economic Recovery” Is a Fraud
Americans have been continually deceived about the true state of the financial system Dees Illsutration Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Yesterday’s so-called “horror” show for…
The Next Bubble Is About to Burst: College Grads Face Dwindling Jobs and Mounting Loans
Today’s graduates face miserable job prospects, and experts say the student loan crisis could be worse than the credit card or housing bubbles. Sarah Jaffe…
Why the Rich Love High Unemployment
Mark Provost Dissident Voice Christina Romer, former member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, accuses the administration of “shamefully ignoring” the unemployed. Paul Krugman…
America, I don’t want to work for you anymore
FDR Memorial Bread Line Wiki Image Fire Dog Lake Probably by now, we’ve all seen this graph or one like it. Just one in a…
Hopes for a quick decline in US joblessness dim
© AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US economists were anticipating more bad news in the jobs market when the government releases new…
Bad Education: College Debt No Longer Economical
Wikimedia image Malcolm Harris N+1 Magazine The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 graduated with $24,000 in outstanding loans….
Americans pessimistic about economy: poll
New York job hopefuls © AFP/Getty Images/File Spencer Platt AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans are more pessimistic about the economy than they have been at…
India, and the Economic Folly of a College Degree
Wikimedia Commons image John Tamny Forbes “…if an equal proportion of people were educated at the public expence, the competition would soon be so great,…
We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. Census Worker AFP File image Stephen Moore Wall Street…
Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?
Ian Fletcher Activist Post If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right…