... and Unemployment Experiences gave me a new framework for understanding the damaging effects of a fundamental premise behind most job search assistance: the idea that unemployment is the result of remediable failings in an individual’s job search strategy, rather than a systemic failure created by the structure...

...Brian Stauffer ( brianstauffer.com ) As unemployment rises, middle-aged men are increasingly turning to suicide. If we don’t elect a government willing to address this crisis, younger people may lose the prospect of valuing their own aging. Illustration by Brian Stauffer. ...

... and safe environment, and fair treatment for you and your coworkers—matters a lot to almost eveiyone. Correspondingly, unemployment JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 WWW.TIKKUN.ORG TIKKUN 75 MEMOS TO OBAMA In declining our...

..., and there is nothing in this bucolic landscape to suggest anything is amiss in Spain. However, the economic woes in this country are well known. As of November 2012, unemployment has risen above 25 percent and calls for more austerity have been greeted with demonstrations and widespread popular opposition...

... and workers have increasingly been forced into lower-income service sector jobs or into unemployment. Meanwhile, the two-party political system has increasingly been dominated by the wealthy, so that the Democratic Party of the second decade of the twenty-first century often embraces the economic agenda...

... cause increased unemployment and the erosion of public education, health care subsidies, social security, state and national parks, environmental protection, food safety, and even fire and police services, all of which are particularly vital to the middle class and the poor. How...

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...AP Photo/Gerry Broome What might the American Left accomplish if all our various identity groups came together in a powerful coalition? Here, activists from North Carolina sing together in protest of Republican lawmakers’ attacks on Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and education and voting rights...

... into deficit hysteria, thereby all but guaranteeing that the next several years will continue to be marked by high unemployment, austerity, and painful cuts at the local, state, and federal levels. Disturbingly, this climate is likely to foster widespread disillusionment with the capacity of progressive...

... of the economic meltdown and the close to 18 percent unemployment and underemployment rate. Democrats didn’t even pass legislation to prohibit banks from charging exorbi­ tant interest rates on mortgages. Few of these critics minimize the huge obstacles created by Republicans in Congress, who have...

..., a heterogeneous catch-all which, according to him, includes those who “experience long-term unemployment or are not members of the labor force, individuals who are engaged in street crime and other forms of aberrant behavior, and families that experience long-term spells of poverty and/or welfare dependency...

...: “There is no partner for peace.” Most Israelis will never learn in Israeli civics class that Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have a different legal status and do not have the universal right to vote in any national elections. Nor will we learn that it isn’t BDS causing massive unemployment; that the eight-meter...

...Wages are no longer increasing as they did from 1820 through 1970. As unemployment rates soar, Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Here people line up for a hot meal at Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Creative Commons/Jim Stipe. ...

... of our overconsumption and our dangerous assumption of com­ fort as a “right.” • The denigration of “service.” This period of high unemployment is a moment to be seized, a time to cre­ ate an array of nonmilitary options for serving our society and helping to re-establish...

... party’s work. economy timed to the election cycle. The Republicans argue Maybe America will be better served by divided government that the Democratic stimulus failed to keep the unemployment that puts both parties in charge. Then, America can hopefully look rate at a promised 8 percent and thus...

... of modern urban life, sharing information about the serious problems of crime, unemployment, loneliness, and alienation in the West. At the same time we have highlighted the various movements that seek to strengthen local economies and community, regenerate healthier agriculture, and foster a deeper...

... the above-mentioned advancements and spawning appalling new twists on old problems. Black unemployment rates are consistently twice that of whites. African Americans endure a host of health care disparities as well. We were disproportionately targeted for subprime loans, and because home ownership is linked...