BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1996
RELEASED TODAY: Unemployment rates in most states were little changed in
June. Forty-three states recorded changes of 0.3 percentage point or less.
The national jobless rate dropped to 5.3 percent in June from 5.6 percent
in May. Nonfarm payroll
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1996
TODAY'S BLS NEWS RELEASE: "The Focus is on the Producer Price Index in July
Monthly Labor Review" that points out that BLS continues to analyze Producer
Price Index trends and to search for better weighting, indexing, and
measuring techniques --
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1996
RELEASED TODAY:
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- Nonfarm payroll employment increased in July, and
the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.4 percent. The number
of payroll jobs rose by 193,000 over the month, led by a gain in the retail
trade
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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:00:51 BST
From: John Hutnyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SISON Asylum
Hi
I am reposting various documents relating to the campaign of the
Jose Maria Sison, of the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines, to avoid deportation
FYI,
The call for papers for the special issue of the _Review
of Radical Political Economics_ in honor of DAVID GORDON
is now available on the web. Check either:
URPE web page at
http://economics.csusb.edu/orgs/URPE/urpehome.html
or the RRPE web page at
Does anyone know if I can ever subscribe to any of the distribution list
(if any) from the BLS directly?
Thanks!
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BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1996
RELEASED TODAY:
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION --
United Nations sponsored negotiations chaired by Ambassador Jaap
Ramaker of the Netherlands are under way in Geneva aimed at
reaching a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on nuclear weapons.
The talks, which include 61 countries, have been underway for three
years and are scheduled to bring
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The following is an essay on welfare reform by Cedric Herring that ran
in the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday, August 3, 1996.
Declaring War on the Poor
Three notes about this topic, which I'll mostly leave to
individual discussion with Gil.
1. I apologize that I wasn't clearer about my purposes of my
previous note with the above title. It was NOT meant to simply be
a criticism of Gil's note. I also criticized Edwin, though I did
not do so
Organizing the youth is one of the most important questions of every
age, especially in the 20th century. The 20th century ushered in
unprecedented large-scale socialization of the process of production and
a massive involvement of youth in different social affairs. Of particular
Gil S. writes:
The paper [explaining why scarcity rents arts more
arguments that will not escape your interpretation of
"obtuseness.""
I don't mention it [i.e., that surplus-value iobjectified
surplus-labour] because to do so would be both obvious
and irrelevant to the present argument.
There
I'll be unfair to Blair and assume that he is willing to act
as the representative of the RM crowd. (Let me point out
that while I don't necessarily agree the the R/M answers,
I do think they are asking important questions).
Blair writes,
I will just point out that Eric's comments in the last
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Blair Sandler wrote: Of course, the "Science Wars" are all
the rage right now, with "real" scientists disagreeing precisely over the points
in contention here (as below). So saying that economists have to be
"scientists" or that "a scientific approach is needed" is to say
At 2:25 PM -0700 8/5/96, Eric Nilsson wrote:
I'll be unfair to Blair and assume that he is willing to act
as the representative of the RM crowd.
Fairness is not particularly relevant. It's just a bad assumption. As I
indicated, I don't have the time or energy to get into what are necessarily
Jim D. criticizes my statement that a classical theory
of value and distribution "in no way depends" on
scarcity with examples of the ostensible role of
scarcity in the distribution of income. But the
examples strike me as having more to do with the
power to legislate property laws and enforce
Dear Maggie,
While I concur with the spirit of some of the suggestions put forth in this
article -- I strongly OBJECT to the SEXIST nature of the writing.
Oy! I messed up. In the previous draft of the piece, I did talk about
affirmative action based on gender as well as race. As I ran out
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