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BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1997
Initial claims for unemployment insurance
Western style democracy and rule of law have resulted in the
reality for Russian workers who face a massive backlog of unpaid
wages. In many cases, starvation now looms.
One Russian worker in four is no longer paid regularly. More
than 20 million people in Russia do not receive their wages
I just got around to reading the article arrowed below
and found it pretty nifty, especially juxtaposed with
the $500 paperweights, $2K watches, etc.
This is the one those get-ahead friends and classmates of yore
can relate to. Generally an interesting issue.
Dave:
First, thank you for posting these reports.
Second, do you know if the CPI is also used as a basis for the IRS'
annual income tax schedule adjustments? If so, it would seem that the
new CPI calculations could have the added impact of increasing the tax
burden on wage earners.
Jeff Fellows
In response to the exchange between Tom, Doug and Max, there
is recent evidence from Canada that they are both right.
Yesterday the Canadian Council on Welfare issued its
report on child poverty in Canada in which my home province,
Manitoba, was third on the list after New Brunswick and
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Quoth Valis:
Quoth Tom re Max:
The disruption and the socialization of the losses are not random processes.
Life goes on more or less for some people and just less for others. While
Chossudovsky may have been hyperventilating, Max's and Doug's sanguine
comments about the "low rate
And another thing.
Are you saying that _I_ sympathize with Chossudovsky's politics or excuse
failures in logic and careless use of data? Or are you just setting up a
bogus dichotomy as a platform to pontificate from? I simply was pointing out
that Doug and Max were citing low unemployment
Doug Henwood wrote,
Are you waxing deconstructive here, Tom? Being anti-apocalyptic requies an
(unacknowledge) dependency on the notion of apocalypse? If so, what is the
unnarativizable other?
The answer to the first question is, "yes". As for the second, I wouldn't
say that the dependency is
Max Sawicky wrote,
Henceforth, the names of Walker and Chossudovsky
will be forever intertwined, their ethnic
contrast notwithstanding, though there may be
some truth to the rumor that Chossudovsky's real
name was Lodge and he changed it to make it as a
radical economist. By the same
HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS?
By Rod Hiebert, President
Telecommunications Workers Union
Over the last few months, business publications like The Economist
and Business Week have traced the fragility of the world's stock
markets and the increasing threat of deflation to
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BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1997
The demand for workers is likely to remain
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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1997:
Consumer confidence increased in
Tom Walker wrote:
I will say, however, that pooh-poohing the apocalypse can be as much of a
pose as apocalypticism itself. It might even be interesting to ask whether
apocalyptic pooh-poohing isn't itself just a variation on the theme of
apocalypse. In other words, Sawicky's rhetorical labelling
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BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1997
While the U.S. economy is likely to keep its
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
It's magic: lower incomes + higher labour force participation = a lower rate
of unemployment. This precisely confirms the right-wing nostrum that there
is no such thing as involuntary unemployment. At a low enough wage, there is
a job for everyone who
Tom Walker wrote:
There's nothing fishy about the *numbers* -- they measure what they're
intended to measure. There is something fishy about the *relevance* of those
numbers in terms of the lives of working people. A family in which one adult
is working full time and earning enough to support
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