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NYTimes.com: Census Finds Rise in Foreign Workers
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. US | December 08, 2009 Census Finds Rise in Foreign Workers By SAM ROBERTS The proportion of foreign-born workers is the highest since the 1920s. The analysis also found a higher education decline at the third generation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/us/08census.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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[IWS] 2ND Edition: PUT TO WORK: THE WPA AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION]
by Eugene McElroy 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Monthly Review Press Put To Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression Second Edition Including a New Introduction and Afterword by Nancy E. Rose http://monthlyreview.org/books/puttowork.php ISBN: 978-1-58367-206-8 $14.95 paperback 160 pp. October 2009 Overview: With unemployment surging to record levels and the economy in freefall, experts are looking to the Great Depression for lessons in stimulating job creation. Then, as now, the system was unable to provide the jobs and financial support desperately needed by millions of people. But then-in the 1930s-the state intervened to create massive employment programs that put people to work on socially useful projects in states, cities, and towns across the country. The scope of these programs was unprecedented and never repeated in the decades that followed. Today, as the severity of the economic crisis increasingly resembles that of the Great Depression, the time for a reappraisal of the New Deal employment programs has never been more necessary. Put To Work tells the story of the massive government job-creation programs of the 1930s-not only the Works Progress Administration (WPA), but also the lesser known Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and Civil Works Administration (CWA), which set the framework for the ideological and policy battles that followed. Nancy E. Rose details the development of these programs, the pressures that surrounded them, and the resulting constraints. She analyzes both their unique contributions and their shortcomings, especially in their treatment of women and African-Americans. In the process, she carefully reevaluates the charges that these were inefficient "make-work" programs, or "boondoggles," charges that continue to characterize job-creation programs to this day. In her new introduction, Rose places the Obama administration's economic stimulus package in historical perspective as part of this tradition of government job creation programs. In her new Conclusion, she explores lessons from the New Deal work programs for the current era. Author: Nancy E. Rose is professor and chair of economics at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs, as well as articles about government welfare and work program policy and history. Her recent work has focused on radical pedagogy and on families with lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents. Reviews: "This is a must read for anyone concerned about today's mass unemployment and the chronic unemployment that persists between recessions. Rose carefully describes, analyzes, and evaluates the New Deal job programs-their shortcomings and contradictions as well as their very great accomplishments. Government job creation, says Rose, can be used to alleviate unemployment in our time and can simultaneously enhance our living standards by providing much-needed human services as well as physical infrastructure. She provides useful guidelines that can help us avoid the weaknesses and build on the strength of these past programs." -Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; co-founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity "Illuminating to scholars, students, the general public, and feminist and civil rights advocates, Put to Work stands out among Depression-era studies for its vivid descriptions and comparisons of all three major New Deal work programs: the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Rose pulls no punches about the racism and sexism of all three and the inefficiency arising from the very mandate to use rather than save labor. Yet, in telling the other side of the story-their myriad contributions to our physical, cultural, and human resources-Rose leads us to regret that government work programs have never become permanent supplements to a private enterprise system incapable of employing all who want to work." -Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Ph.D. Program, Adelphi University School of Social Work; Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition "In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, this new edition of Nancy Rose's classic study of New Deal-era jobs programs is exactly right on time. Put to Work is not history for history's sake; the author's critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the WPA and other relief programs of the 1930s gleans crucial lessons for public policy today. Rose's well-written and carefully researched monograph demonstrates that there is no single policy with more potential social and economic benefits than direct job creation." -Mathew Forstater, Professor of Economics and Black Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City "Even as our current economic recession has catalyzed renewed attention to the lessons of the Great Depression, there is one set of lessons that seems to have escaped our current policy makers-those are the lessons described in Rose's Put to Work. Government as the engine of direct job creation was-and still can be-a force for tremendous good. The ingenuity and creativity that resulted from the New Deal jobs programs left this country with a rich legacy of long-lasting cultural, artistic, and infrastructural artifacts even as they gave hope, purpose, needed goods and incomes to millions. This is a must read for anyone concerned about our current economic plight!" -Sheila D. Collins, Professor of Political Science, William Paterson University; co-founder, National Jobs for All Coalition Praise for the First Edition "Rose offers an important perspective on how past nation-saving programs can be useful in solving current unemployment and homeless problems." -Publishers Weekly **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu<mailto:smb6@cornell.edu> **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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[IWS] GAO: U.S. LABOR FORCE STATISTICS: Illustrative Simulations of the Likely Effects of Underrepresenting Unauthorized Residents. GAO-10-99, November 30. [online 7 December 2009]]
by Eugene McElroy 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Government Accountability Office (GAO) U.S. Labor Force Statistics: Illustrative Simulations of the Likely Effects of Underrepresenting Unauthorized Residents. GAO-10-99, November 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-99 [full-text, 61 pages] [excerpt] In times of economic uncertainty as well as in times of stability, policymakers and the public rely on labor force statistics, such as the unemployment rate, to provide important information on the current state of the economy. These statistics, published by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), include key figures that are based on data obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS, a household interview survey administered by the Department of Commerce's U.S. Census Bureau, is designed to represent the entire United States civilian noninstitutional population. However, certain U.S. residents-specifically, foreign-born persons who are not authorized to live here, to whom we refer as unauthorized residents in this report-may not be represented in CPS data to the same extent as the general population. Little research has been done on whether potential underrepresentation of the unauthorized population might noticeably affect labor statistics, but policy efforts that depend on valid and reliable labor force statistics would benefit from such information. We agreed with your office to examine issues concerning unauthorized residents' impact on labor force statistics. We addressed the following key questions: 1. Extent of underrepresentation: What is known about the extent of any underrepresentation of unauthorized residents in CPS data used to compile labor force statistics? 2. Labor force status: What is known about the likely labor force status of unauthorized residents? 3. Possible effects: How might CPS underrepresen **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu<mailto:smb6@cornell.edu> **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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[IWS] THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION OF THE U.S. 2007 & 2008 [7 December 2009]]
by Eugene McElroy 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Census The Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2007 and 2008 [7 December 2009] 2007 http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/cps2007.html 2008 http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/cps2008.html National-level tabulations from the Current Population Survey on this population group are shown by a wide range of characteristics including education, marital status, employment status, occupation and industry, earnings and poverty, and household type and tenure. Unique to this data set are tables that show the foreign-born population by these characteristics crossed by generation status (i.e., first, second or third). **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu<mailto:smb6@cornell.edu> **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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NYTimes.com: 'Whitening' the R'esum'e
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. WEEKINREVIEW | December 05, 2009 'Whitening' the R'esum'e By MICHAEL LUO In the job hunt, maybe it helps to play down race. Maybe not. But some do it just in case. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/weekinreview/06Luo.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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Black workers' crisis may linger after upturn
by Eugene McElroy 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34068710/ns/business-economy_at_a_crossroads/ The recession has compounded a decades-long problem for black workers, who began the downturn facing a far higher jobless rate than the general population and have fared worse since. Now experts are worried that many blacks will remain in crisis even as the economy begins to recover, largely because the recession has eliminated so many working-class jobs in sectors like manufacturing and retail that are likely to come back slowly, if at all. -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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New Analysis Points to High Wage Loss and Large Jobs Deficit through 2012
by Eugene McElroy 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Despite growing economic optimism in some quarters, a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that the economy is still far from full recovery. From the standpoint of jobs the economic variable that most concerns Americans we are not even one third of the way through the recession, said John Schmitt, a senior economist at CEPR and an author of the new study. Unemployment will cost workers more in terms of lost wages and salaries in 2010 and 2011 than they have this year. The report, The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit, estimates the earnings loss of Americans from the beginning of the recession through 2012. The findings show that U.S. workers will lose a total of over $1 trillion in wages and salaries as a result of the Great Recession and the economy will continue to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next three years under current policy. click here: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/high-wage-loss-… -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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Unemployment rate eases in November
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

This story was sent to you by: eugene -------------------- Unemployment rate eases in November -------------------- The jobless rate unexpectedly slips to 10% from 10.2% in October as the pace of job losses slows down. By Don Lee December 4 2009, 6:26 AM PST Reporting from Washington -- In a hopeful jobs report before the holidays, the nation's unemployment rate eased to 10% in November from 10.2 % in October, and the number of workers on payrolls was essentially unchanged last month, the Labor Department said today. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs5-2009dec05,0,6122231.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

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NYTimes.com: Dangerous Work
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. OPINION | December 04, 2009 Editorial: Dangerous Work Congress should fix holes in legislation intended to protect whistle-blowers at public companies from being penalized for reporting wrongdoing. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/opinion/04fri3.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Wal-Mart to Settle Massachusetts Suit for $40 Million
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. BUSINESS | December 04, 2009 Wal-Mart to Settle Massachusetts Suit for $40 Million By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Roughly 87,500 Massachusetts employees of the retailer will receive from $400 to $2,500. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/04settle.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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