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Showing posts with label unemployment rate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment rate. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Coronavirus bailouts for the casinos but nothing for harried student-loan debtors: Let'em eat cake!

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Congress turned on the money spigot last month and spewed out cash to millions of people and businesses that were hurt by the coronavirus ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Recession or Depression? The people who make things are out of work while the people who do very little are still getting paid

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What is the difference between a recession and an economic depression? According to one adage, a recession occurs when a lot of people are...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Growing up poor in western Oklahoma: The Kool-Aid years

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My parents grew up in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. And when I say Dust Bowl, I'm not talking about the generic, dust-parc...
Friday, April 10, 2020

"If I were a carpenter": Manual skills will be more valuable than a liberal arts degree in the post-coronavirus economy

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If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady Would you marry me anyway? Would you have my baby? Tim Hardin Sung best by Johnny ...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

"Seeing poor white people makes me happy": Should you take out student loans to attend SUNY Old Westbury?

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Do you remember Associate Professor Nicholas Powers, who made the national news a while back for posting an online essay titled "Seeing...
Friday, April 3, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic: Is it time to stock up on canned goods and ammunition?

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On the last day of February, I was attending the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Austin, Texas. I was thinking a...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Nearly 95 million Americans aren't working: The government's unemployment rate is just a bullshit number

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During the First World War, it is said. the British military kept three separate casualty lists: one list to deceive the public, a second li...
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