Five Key Takeaways From The November Jobs Report By Paul Wiseman, AP News. December 6, 2020 Five Key Takeaways From The November Jobs Report2020-12-062020-12-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/jobs.png200px200px Above photo: This May 7, 2020, file photo shows a man wearing a mask while walking under a Now Hiring sign at a CVS Pharmacy during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu. Washington, DC – Evidence was abundant in […]
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem capitalized on news that police officers are leaving Seattle at record rates amid budget calls and ongoing protests by offering them work in her state. In her message to Seattle police officers, the Republican governor promised South Dakota would not “demonize” them. “In South Dakota we stand WITH you,” she tweeted on Saturday. The governor even added a link to a […]
An Afghan refugee-turned-famous Swedish expert on education and integration, Hamid Zafar, has had his perfect public image ruined after a local newspaper discovered hateful comments he had been posting online under a pseudonym. Zafar arrived in Sweden as a refugee child and rose to prominence as a symbol of successful integration. Brought up in what is being described as a “socially vulnerable” district of Gothenburg, the […]
Although not a bulwark of the Norwegian economy, the tourism industry accounts for over 165,000 jobs in a nation of 5.4 million and corresponds to 1.8 percent of its GDP. According to new analysis by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), total tourist consumption between January and August of 2020 fell by a staggering NOK 41 billion ($4.4 billion) compared with the same period last year, […]
Watching well heeled, well paid and pompous Tories on the news all morning trying to convince us there is no money left in the cookie jar to support millions of workers facing the sack due to increased Covid19 restrictions made me think about nuclear weapons and the narrow contrived parameters of political discourse in the UK. Not one journalist had the cojones to ask how the […]
As for so many of us, the past several months formed a season of loss for Wynton Marsalis. His father, pianist Ellis Marsalis—who Wynton described on his blog as “a humble man with a lyrical sound”—died on April 1, at 85, from complications of COVID-19. One of his clearest mentors, the writer and critic Stanley Crouch, died on Sept. 16, at 74. The celebrated trumpeter is, […]
New Jobs Report Consistent With Weak Economy October 4, 2020 New Jobs Report Consistent With Weak Economy2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/congress-e1601822826362.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Flight attendants, airline pilots and other aviation workers hold a protest organized by the Association of Flight Attendants urging the US Congress to pass a Covid-19 relief package and extend the Paycheck Support Program to save aviation jobs during a rally outside the US Capitol in Washington, […]
A store announces its looming closure in Salt Lake City on Aug. 30, 2020. An economic recovery is starting to show signs of losing momentum as businesses close and companies announce big layoffs. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP A store announces its looming closure in Salt Lake City on Aug. 30, 2020. An economic recovery is starting to show signs of losing momentum […]
After spending most of the first presidential debate shouting incoherently, Donald Trump finished it off with a crystal clear message. “I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully,” he said, stoking fears of potentially violent election day interference. At home in Chicago, Kayleigh Glaza missed Trump’s comment at first. “There was so much yelling and other stuff happening,” she said. One […]
US airlines are preparing to lay off tens of thousands of employees unless they get additional federal aid. The industry has been struggling to stay afloat amid an unprecedented collapse in air travel due to the Covid pandemic. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said late Wednesday that the carrier has no choice but to cut 19,000 jobs after attempts to get more federal money failed. The CEO of United […]
Back in early spring, Khristan Yates worked as a quality assurance analyst at a marketing company and loved her job. “I had one of the best jobs of my career,” recalls Yates, 31, a resident of Chicago. Yates, who’s a mother of two children, had moved into a bigger apartment just before the pandemic hit because she wanted to give her kids more space. At the […]
As cinemas across India remain shut down despite unlock phase 4, the Multiplex Association of India and Bollywood celebs have appealed to the government to allow their re-opening. Since the pan-India lockdown on 25 March, hundreds of people working in the cinemas have lost their jobs, while the movie theatres are facing financial problems. Bollywood celebs Richa Chadha, Anurag Kashyap, Nimrat Kaur Anubhav Sinha, Manoj Bajpayee, […]
America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’ September 11, 2020 America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’2020-09-112020-09-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/line-food-bank-e1599870392277.jpg200px200px Above photo: Stephanie Keith, Getty Images. “Two well-known and highly respected mainstream economists, Carmen Reinhart, a chief economist for the World Bank, and Vincent Reinhart, chief economist for Morgan Stanley bank, have recently published an article in the widely read capitalist source, Foreign Affairs, entitled ‘The Pandemic Depression’. Arguing primarily from a global […]
A scandal has erupted amid comments which were allegedly made by President Donald Trump where he called dead United States servicemen “losers” and suckers”, according to a bombshell Atlantic magazine article on Thursday. US President Donald Trump attacked the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, due to her stake in The Atlantic, doubling down on an ongoing scandal that first unveiled in the magazine that […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105251/12/1052511245_0:0:1920:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_809f1277b0d541420eb453730f9b5509.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202009031080352655-mexico-citys-authorities-say-will-create-300000-jobs-to-reactivate-economy/ MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has presented a plan to reactivate the region’s economy in the amount of $5.3 billion, under which the city will create 300,000 jobs lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We estimate private investment at 75 billion pesos [$3.45 billion] over the last five months of this year and […]
Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107856/19/1078561980_0:0:3062:1723_1200x675_80_0_0_d8e6c66d0300a0c68cd3e2f5f275eaaf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202008251080274954-i-was-so-jealous-bill-gates-reveals-what-steve-jobs-qualities-he-envied/ Mentioning Jobs’ accomplishments, Gates also noted how the former managed to help revive Apple back in 1997 and roll out a line of products that included the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. American entrepreneur and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has praised his late rival, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, over certain qualities that the latter possessed in life. […]
At North Carolina Colleges, ‘Safe Jobs Save Lives’ By Calvin Deutschbein, Workers World. August 19, 2020 At North Carolina Colleges, ‘Safe Jobs Save Lives’2020-08-192020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/unc-protest-for-safe-schools-e1597808235953.jpeg200px200px Above photo: UE 150 organized an action at North Carolina State University in Raleigh on Aug. 6. NCSU, the only UNC System school larger than UNC-Chapel Hill, also reopened for in-person classes on Aug. 10. UE150. At 2:15 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14 — […]
In an effort to prop up the floundering economy amid the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the UK government announced a job retention scheme in March, with companies paid up to 80 percent of the wage bill for furloughed employees. British employers are beginning to acknowledge the unavoidability of difficult decisions such as axing staff to navigate an unforgiving labour market, as the UK government hastens […]
FA Cup winners Arsenal are facing a barrage of negative publicity after announcing that 55 jobs within the club are to be cut due to the coronavirus pandemic, as boss Mikel Arteta plots several lucrative transfer deals. A statement issued on Wednesday announcing the job cuts explained that the club were taking several measures to address the drop in broadcast revenue endured throughout the ongoing COVID-19 […]
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order preventing federal agencies from hiring foreign workers via H-1B visas. In addition, Trump fired two federal executives for outsourcing US jobs and “betraying” Americans. Trump’s order, signed on Monday, requires federal agencies to prioritize US citizens and Green Card holders before outsourcing labor to foreign workers – who can come to the US on H-1B visas. Use of […]
In his “Build Back Better” agenda, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden focuses largely on climate change, aiming at trying to “achieve the groundbreaking Paris Climate Accords”, a plan that sets a goal of significantly reducing carbon emissions around the world. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, announced his major $2 trillion climate change plan that aims to boost […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hanging over the US economy like a thick fog of uncertainty, with recovery likely suppressed and job market recovery hurt by the second wave of the pandemic, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said on Tuesday. “A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us, and downside risks predominate. The recovery is likely to face headwinds even if the […]
The UK high street has seen a tidal wave of job losses due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Last week retailers such as Harrods and Topshop announced redundancies and now John Lewis and Boots have been added to the list. High Street Retailers John Lewis and Boots have announced 5,300 job cuts due to store closures. This comes after the loss of nearly 9,000 […]
A leading economist shares why crisis-time central bank policies are saving zombie companies while hurting small businesses and startups. Our main discussion is with Daniel Lacalle. Daniel is chief economist at Tressis and is the author of numerous books including “Life in the Financial Markets,” “Escape from the Central Bank Trap” and his most recent, “Freedom or Equality.” He has been named one of the 100 […]
United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs July 7, 2020 United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/image-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: A pregnant woman waits in line for groceries with hundreds during a food pantry, sponsored by Healthy Waltham for those in need due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at St. Mary’s Church in Waltham, Mass. AP Photo/Charles Krupa. According to newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics […]
Does MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ever get tired of being wrong? She pushed the Russia hoax on a nightly basis for three solid years, you would think that alone would have been enough to shame her off the national stage, but no. She just keeps going on being wrong about other things. The latest example is the June jobs report. She gleefully predicted the numbers would be […]
A restaurant server in New York prepares a table. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A restaurant server in New York prepares a table. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Employers added 4.8 million jobs last month, as the U.S. economy continued to slowly bounce back from a deep and painful coronavirus recession. The unemployment rate dipped to 11.1%. Job growth accelerated from May, when […]
Cartoonist Scott Adams has received a barrage of criticisms from ‘woke’ Twitter users angered by his claim that he’s lost three jobs due to being white, one being on the cancelled adaptation of his comic strip ‘Dilbert’. “I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience,” Adams tweeted. “That was the third job I lost for being […]
The Resolution Foundation think tank has warned that Britain needs to embark on its biggest peacetime job creation package, in order to prevent the worst unemployment crisis seen in a generation. Nafis Alam, a Research Affiliate CCAF at the University of Cambridge, believes that the situation unfolding in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented and a coordinated effort between the different sectors of economy […]
Rebuilding After Recession: A Plan For Jobs By Janet Williamson, TUC. June 25, 2020 Rebuilding After Recession: A Plan For Jobs2020-06-252020-06-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/06/Solar-Install-Top2-e1496763632969-150×99.jpg200px200px Above photo: Workers installing solar panels from Oxfam International/flickr. Key findings Research carried out for the TUC by Transition Economics reveals that fast-tracking spending on projects such as broadband, green technology, transport and housing could deliver a 1.24 million jobs boost by 2022. The analysis shows that projects which […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order putting new restrictions on foreign work visas until the end of 2020, a move the administration said is needed as the economy suffers in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. Signed on Monday evening, the order freezes several types of work visas – including the H1B for highly skilled workers – which the White House says will keep some […]