Jul 26
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As bad as the past four months of the coronavirus pandemic have been in the United States, it’s likely only going to…
Jul 14
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The country’s system of arbitrarily leaving access to medicine up to the discretion of employers has never been a…
May 17
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In April, it was believed that women were going to be hit hardest by the layoffs resulting from circumstances…
May 5
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There is an internet adage dating back at least a decade about the inadvisability of playing chess against a pigeon:…
Apr 29
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Trying to get Trump Bucks and/or apply for unemployment is turning into a Kafka-esque bureaucratic nightmare. I can…
Apr 23
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For weeks, Trump’s “Reopen America” narrative has remained relatively unchanged; against all recommendations from…
Apr 16
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Despite the fact that nurses do the majority of interacting with hospital patients, it is generally doctors who…
Apr 12
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This is a real bummer: Walt Disney World, the largest single-site employer in the United States, will furlough…
Apr 9
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America’s leading death cult (also known as the Republicans) continues to reach astronomical new heights of…
Apr 9
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In the last two weeks of March, a staggering 8.7 million Americans filed new unemployment claims as non-essential…
Apr 2
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Dr. Anthony Fauci fights diseases, and also Trump’s willful incompetence, but he hasn’t yet had to fight against…
Jun 3 2016
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The Los Angeles Times did an exceedingly detailed analysis of the nearly 7 million donations to the Bernie Sanders…
Jan 15 2016
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Friday that they will be shutting down 269 stores around the world “in the coming…
Jan 9 2015
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The unemployment rate for adult women has reached its lowest point in six years, according to a new analysis from the National Women's Law Center. But wages are still stagnant, and a third of the job-growth for women was in low wage industries: retail, hospitality, temporary jobs, home health care, and nursing and… Read more
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Jan 7 2015
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If you've ever lived with a dude, you know that men and women, despite political correctness, often live…
Jun 20 2014
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Six years after the economy shit the bed, let's check in with the "Boomerang kids." If you guessed "long-term…
Jan 10 2014
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This post from Reappropriate shows that Asian Americans have the highest long-term unemployment rate, and will thus be detrimentally affected by proposed cuts to long-term unemployment benefits. Really puts a dent in that Model Minority myth, huh?
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Oct 21 2013
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Not to brag, but I've spent years of my life with various Unemployed Boyfriends. None of them were lazy (well one of…
May 30 2013
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Previous studies have established a steep decline in the life expectancy of white women without a high school…
Nov 21 2012
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Shopping for an out-of-work Eeyore? Or a glass-half-full Pollyanna? Or some other children's-entertainment metaphor…