Missoula Sitting around the campfire at the fishing camp with friends from Missoula and Helena last night, it didn’t take long for steak, chicken, roasted corn, baked potatoes, Fat Tire, and Jameson’s to turn to talk of the coming election and Montana’s role as a battleground state. There was no happiness with yet more Obama …
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End Invisible Unemployment Now
New Orleans More than 14 million statistically unemployed adding up to a jobless rate of 9.2% cannot really be invisible, can they? How could they be invisible especially when the real numbers of unemployed who are now “discouraged” job seekers, workers in the informal economy, and “portfolio” workers balancing a list of tasks while trying …
Real Jobs for Real People in the Informal Economy
New Orleans I argued yesterday that as important as “new” industries and mass employers are in finding real employment for millions, that the days when headlines of General Motors hiring 4000 workers are going to be few and far between. What we need is localized informal workshops, training, production, marketing, and sales that can provide …