New Orleans Somehow the columnists are finally noticing that there are a lot of men (and most of them are still men) who are woefully out of work. Both the Times’ David Brooks and David Leonhardt have commented on the fact that 20% of American men are out of work between 25 and 54. Brooks …
Tag: unemployment
Poverty Rate Soaring in US & Canada
Toronto Erik Eckholm summarized the Census Bureau’s report in a clear but painful way: “With the country in its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, four million additional Americans found themselves in poverty in 2009, with the total reaching 44 million, or one in seven residents. Millions more were surviving only because of expanded …
Depression Level Unemployed for Disabled Workers
New Orleans I was at a lost to figure out what shocked me more, the report that the US Government had never looked at the impact on employment and the disabled, or the stark terror of the depression level unemployment figures: 14.5% for 2009 and already 16.4% by midyear 2010! The news was, if anything, …