| Sep 20, 2010 | Economy / BusinessMaybe you’re one of the thousands of young lawyers in America working in some low-skill, part-time job because law firms have cut so many of the starting positions you were educated to take. If so, I have good news: Jobs for young lawyers are now mushrooming in...
| Sep 13, 2010 | Food / FarmingSometimes I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or go bowling. This is one of those times. America is now in a Great Jobs Depression that has already lasted 10 years and continues to rage unabated across the land, devastating the middle class. Yet it took two...
| Jun 28, 2010 | Economy / BusinessUnemploymentStaying high,Our good jobsHave said goodbye. “Don’t believe everything you read in the papers,” Grandma said. We all learned that as kids, but sometimes we swallow dumb stuff anyway. Like now. We want to believe the economy is improving,...
| Jun 4, 2010 | Economy / BusinessWell, the good news is that the U.S. economy gained a net 431,000 jobs in May—albeit largely due to the hiring of 411,000 temporary Census workers. The bad news is that private employment increased by only 41,000, and that’s much less than the 180,000...
| Mar 15, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyI imagine President Obama is kicking himself for not working harder in the 2008 election so that his party could have won majorities in both houses of Congress. If he had, the Democrats would control both the House and Senate, and he could have made good on all his...
