The “Unemployment Insurance Basics” page is now complete. Its link will remain in the Resources section up top, plus in the Pages section to the right.
Archive for the ‘Government CAN Help!’ Category
11 Jun
Why Washington Doesn’t Act to Create Jobs
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes this week, in “Rule by Rentiers,” that all the hoopla in Washington about the U.S. debt is a smokescreen for policies favoring the usual suspects: bankers and their wealthy bondholders. Krugman calls their Washington representatives the Pain Caucus. Those policies amount to Cuts, Cuts, and More Cuts, and [...]
29 May
The “99 Club”: 1 Million and Counting
Many thanks to statistics geek and retired guy Arsen Darnay for digging up this gem from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner’s presentation in January 2011. It shows what’s hard to find anywhere else: an estimate of how many people have been unemployed for 99 weeks or longer. The significance of “99 weeks” [...]
22 Apr
New Poll Reveals What We All Agree On
With so much rancor and divisiveness coming out of Washington over the budget, the deficit, the debt, health care – pretty much everything – the latest New York Times/CBS News poll reveals, once again, that We the People are in surprising agreement, or near agreement, on many of these very issues – Republican, Democrat, and [...]
18 Apr
Job Hunters Boot Camp: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
On April 8, Rep. Jackie Speier sponsored her fifth Job Hunters Boot Camp – three last year and two so far this year. Although I live outsider her district in the San Francisco Bay Area, I attended as a member of the press because of this blog. In contrast to standard job fairs, the Boot [...]
18 Feb
One-Stop Career Centers: A Wealth of Resources
One-Stop Career Centers are all over the country, with job-search services and resources for much more.
15 Feb
Cut Federal Spending? Where?
A new poll shows how we really feel about the budget and the economy.
9 Feb
Free Mentoring for Small Business Startups
Working for yourself can be a viable alternative source of income – as long as you do it right.
