Aug 12
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently published this study showing that for the majority of workers laid off in the recession of 2007-2009, a recovery of full time work has not happened. Great Recession Job Losses Severe, Enduring Of those who lost full-time jobs between 2007 and 2009, only about 50 percent were employed in January …
Apr 16
By David Welsh (sub@sonic.net) via email: Victory for Berkeley Court deals another setback to USPS scheme to sell off Berkeley’s Post Office Here is a summary of the effect of the April 15th court decision, by the City of Berkeley’s attorney Antonio Rossmann: 1. “In a nutshell, Judge Alsup has effectively granted the City and …
Jan 23
By MIKE WHITNEY, reposted from Counterpunch by permission: JANUARY 15, 2015 Down the Plughole 40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart by MIKE WHITNEY Growth of Real Hourly Compensation for Production/Nonsupervisory Workers and Productivity, 1948–2011 Is America in the throes of a class war? Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all there …
Dec 08
On Saturday Dec. 6, I was part of an impromptu group that got together on the steps of the endangered Berkeley Main Post Office and sang a version of “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Hali Hammer, with the guitar, center, was the sparkplug for the event. I’m a row behind her, three people to the …
Nov 23
The second edition of my book, Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery, is now off the press and on sale via lifering.com. The text of this second edition corrects several typographical errors. The worst of these was the inexcusable misspelling of the last name of Jean Kirkpatrick, founder of Women for …
Nov 23
Ursula LeGuin’s acceptance speech upon winning the National Book Award, 2014: To the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I …
Nov 16
The millennial generation is less religious than any before it, and the Internet is probably responsible. That’s the conclusion of two separate recent reports. Adam Lee, a writer for the Guardian (UK), cites research showing that: In every region of the country, in every Christian denomination, membership is either stagnant or declining. Meanwhile, the number …
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