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Philip Harvey [NJFAC]; Paul Krugman: Why not a WPA?

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:23:23 UT

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According to NJFAC Advisory Bd member Prof. Philip Harvey, "the current
stimulus, which appropriated $787 billion and, according to Administration
economic advisers, will create or save no more than four million jobs,
costs a staggering $200,000 per job. If those funds had instead been spent

chronological map of unemployment rates by county

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:41:43 UT

The Decline: The Story of a Recession

Unemployment Rates by County. January 2007 to September 2009

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Unemployment rates are a 12-month average from the same month a year
earlier.

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Half of US kids depend on food stamps during childhood: study

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:37:45 UT

Agence France Press
November 2, 2009
**Half of US kids depend on food stamps during childhood: study*
*American children face the highest levels of poverty and social deprivation
of any children
growing up in Western developed nations, and they have the flimsiest social

Economy Track--a new service from EPI

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:35:18 UT

People interested in jobs and unemployment, state data, and other economic
issues, like output and capacity utilization, will be interested in the
Economic Policy Institute's new service, ECONOMY TRACK, at
[link]
Here is its description: "Economy Track was created by the Economic Policy

US has highest income inequality among OECD, except Turkey and Mexico

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:26:20 UT

OECD (2008), Growing Unequal? : Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD
Countries
The United States is the country with the highest inequality level and
poverty rate across the
OECD, Mexico and Turkey excepted. Since 2000, income inequality has
increased rapidly, continuing
a long-term trend that goes back to the 1970s.

Citigroup Plutonomy Report (cited in Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story)

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:03:22 UT

*Citigroup October 16, 2005* *
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*Equity Strategy*
*Plutonomy: Buying luxury, explaining global imbalances*
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Sorry to send another message so soon, but couldn't resist the subject. jz

Mishel, “The Safety Net and the Recession” Congressional testimony

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:27 UT

Congressional Testimony Given By Lawrence Mishel, Ph.D., President, Economic
Policy Institute,
to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family
Support October 8, 2009
"Some claim somehow that the recovery package isn't working by simply
pointing to continued job losses. I consider this peculiar, especially from

Lessons from New Deal job programs

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:02:03 UT

Lessons from the New Deal Public Employment Programs *Nancy E. Rose*
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Nothing before or after the 1930s has matched the magnitude of the FERA,
CWA, and WPA—programs that provided work each month for several million
people, paid decent wages, and developed innovative projects in
construction, the arts, and the production of consumer goods.

America’s New Post-Recession Employment Arithmetic

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:38:33 UT

America’s New Post-Recession Employment Arithmetic By James W. Hughes and
Joseph J. Seneca
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
❒ The Great 2007–2009 recession is the worst employment setback in the
United States since
the Great Depression. In the twenty months from December 2007 (the start of
the recession) to

GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:21:23 UT

David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist,
September 23, 2009
*GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People*
Atop the front page of the New York Times today is a color photo of Georgia
homes flooded up to their rafters, an image that illustrates how when it
comes to insurance our Congress applies two standards, separate and unequal,

NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS, MEET HUMAN NEEDS, & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:01:10 UT

Dear Friends and Colleagues:
As you know, 30 million people are unemployed or underemployed, and millions
more who work full-time are working poor. Our country had a chronic problem.
Now we have a crisis. Even those who see "green shoots" of recovery warn of
high joblessness long after the recession is over. This is the time to

"We're Number 37" [in WHO ranking of world health systems]

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:31:46 UT

YouTube - We're Number 37
[link]

Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:19:16 UT

Dawn has yet to break as a woman leaves the breakfast she’s making in a
Manhattan
kitchen to wake up sleeping children—not hers, but those of the family that
employs
her. A few hours later in Chicago, scores of day laborers start a 10-hour
shift—
minimum wage, no overtime—packing toys into boxes at a wholesale

Pay For Execs At Bailed Out Banks 40% Higher Than Peers

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:24:32 UT

Pay For Execs At Bailed Out Banks 40% Higher Than Peers:
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Stephan Roach: The case against Bernanke

nj...@njfac.org (Coalition, National Jobs for All) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:55:31 UT

The case against Bernanke Financial Times August 25 2009
The chairman of the Federal Reserve is cut from the same market libertarian
cloth that got the Fed into this mess.
By Stephen Roach [The writer is chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia]
Barack Obama has rendered one of his most important post-crisis verdicts: