(Sarcasm) Excellent CNN article on how white people are terrorists, too. (Non-Sarcasm) In case anyone hasn’t heard this sophomoric point before…
Edward Said used to make this point – how Arabs were actually not all that more active in terrorism than disaffected whites and that all the hullabaloo was a result of Hollywood movies and media [...]
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Is the next bubble to burst in higher education? A pretty scathing article about how cheap credit and unwise borrowers have facilitated an environment of inflated college prices and defaulted upon debt.
The pain of deflating this bubble is being felt most acutely in the California public university system, where an impossible mandate (to provide [...]
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If I read any more self pitying articles about law students with huge student loans, I’m going to gag. On what planet are we supposed to feel sorry for a highly educated individual who chooses to go to law school and then can’t find or keep a $100,000 a year starting salary job?
Is it really [...]
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LA Times is reporting job seekers are flooding theme parks in the hopes of landing minimum wage jobs.
Or maybe they’re hoping to meet Kristin Stewart.
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In my life, I’ve had many little jobs. One summer during film school, I worked as a document reviewer on a litigation project. I chronicled my experience in an old blog entry I am reprinting here in entirety.
My Job – Part 1
The job I am working right now is a document review – a company [...]
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Have you been dreaming of the perfect job? What would it be? (Probably not what you’re doing right now.) We know you don’t have time to seriously narrow down all your “dream job” options, what with your one-hour daily commute and unpaid overtime to contend with. So we scoured the universe (or at least the [...]
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Today was a rough morning. But I feel like the story of my morning somehow embodies the way America functions right now…not all bad, but certainly not all good.
Other than one Friday, I am taking my first real days off work since July of last year. This isn’t meant as a gripe – I’ve had [...]
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Nouriel Roubini came to prominence last year as the economist who predicted the crash of the housing bubble. I just came across this article entitled A Tale of Two American Economies he wrote last fall. I think he is onto something:
Many of the lost jobs – in construction, finance, and outsourced manufacturing and services – [...]
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Three years ago, Brian Westbrook and LaDainian Tomlinson were arguably two of the most valuable players in the NFL. Today, they are both unemployed.
You hear it rather often these days – claims of age discrimination against older workers. Down here in Los Angeles, television writers just won a $70 million dollar lawsuit for age discrimination [...]
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A group of economists call for a tax credit to companies to incentivize hiring.
I wrote about the problems with this proposal here.
A factor I did not consider in my earlier post — unemployed workers losing skills. Especially in this recession, when the duration of unemployment is long, this factor may merit additional weight. Many workers, [...]
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