by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
According to the Labor Department, the number of unemployed workers rose by 251,000 in November. But the number of people who were outside of the labor force — that is, neither working nor looking for work — rose by much more: 637,000. These people aren’t counted as...
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
According to the Worldwatch Institute, the value of global trade in food has tripled since 1961, and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In North America food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | Education, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm
Another obstacle to quality teaching and research lies in the fact that the increasing loss of public funding is pushing more universities to align themselves with the national security state, which then faithfully rewards them with billions of dollars in research...
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
I got this from Grace Boggs. Worth reading, posting, and re-posting: ….. Our Time is Not the 1930s By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008 Two weeks ago in my first post- election column, I wrote that I will not be among those organizing or...
by admin | Nov 24, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Marc Steiner Show, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
In discussing whether the auto industry deserves a bailout, we talked about the role of the auto industry in creating the middle class. The work protections that we have, the work week that we have, the benefits we have, all come from the “massification”...
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