“As Corporate America prepares for a possible recession in 2023, companies big and small are axing thousands of positions amid the holidays,” Taylor Telford reports.
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Trump regime: Americans on Social Security will have to file a simple tax return to receive a $1,200 check
“Many lawmakers and advocates for the poor say filing a tax return shouldn’t be necessary for people on Social Security since the government already knows how to send this population monthly checks. The $2.2 trillion aid package said that if someone has not filed a 2019 or 2018 tax return, the U.S. Treasury should get their information from Social Security, if applicable,” The Washington Post reports.
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Robert Kuttner: We need a WWII-size mobilization to stop COVID-19 from destroying the economy
“The need for a Green New Deal can rendezvous with the imperative of anti-depression public investment. Much of this sweeping proposal is on the drawing boards and has not been done for lack of funding. Some of it will take some advance planning. The time to start is now.”
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Capital budget impasse leads to state employee layoffs
Jobs are now being lost as a consequence of Senate Republicans’ refusal to bring the capital budget up for a vote back in July. KING5’s Heather Graf has more.
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This again: Boeing plan will shift hundreds of jobs to Arizona
“The changes are coming at Boeing’s Shared Services Group (SSG), which employs about 3,000 people in the Puget Sound region and provides a wide range of support services to Boeing’s corporate and production units.”
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The utter uselessness of job interviews
Employers like to use free-form, unstructured interviews in an attempt to “get to know” a job candidate. Such interviews are also increasingly popular with admissions
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Bernie Sanders: Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump
Trump has endangered the jobs of workers who were previously safe in the United States. Why? Because he has signaled to every corporation in America
LaunchThis Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working.
This Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working. The Washington Post’s Colby Itkowitz explains how
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Jeb Bush’s economic platform “is pure supply-side voodoo”
Mr. Bush, in particular, may pose as a reasonable, thoughtful type — credulous reporters even describe him as a policy wonk — but his actual
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Activist registers CarlyFiorina.org, posts thirty-thousand frowny faces to represent workers she laid off while at HP
Activist registers CarlyFiorina.org, posts thirty-thousand frowny faces to represent workers she laid off Now this is brilliant: An unnamed activist managed to get his or
LaunchPresident Obama mocks Mitch McConnell at DNC winter meeting
Our Republican Leader in the Senate, as he was coming in, after having tried to block every single thing that we have done to strengthen
LaunchBoeing’s marketing versus Boeing’s actions
Boeing’s marketing department is at it again. We couldn’t help but notice that this week’s edition of the Redmond Reporter contains a full-page color ad,
LaunchRobert Reich: Why wages won’t rise
Insecurity is now baked into every aspect of the employment relationship. Workers can be fired for any reason, or no reason. And benefits are disappearing.
LaunchStellar job growth numbers send Democrats running for cover
Two of the biggest accomplishments of Obama’s first term were health reform and the stimulus (which was too small but certainly better than nothing). Neither
LaunchBoeing managers say transfer of engineer jobs damaging talent, morale
The utter humiliation of laying everyone off and telling them they are welcome to reapply for their existing jobs in a new location has struck
LaunchInequality for All director: Growing income divide threatens society
Pubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.
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