The already poor, he said — the undocumented immigrants, the sweatshop workers, the janitors, maids and security guards — had all but “disappeared” from both the news media and public policy discussions. the standard apartment in a complex occupied largely by day laborers contains two bedrooms, each housing a family of up to five people, plus an additional person laying claim to the couch. wasn't sure who I was supposed to feel sorry for. Well let's begin with our good friend Ruth. She is described in the article as such. Where will Mrs. Madoff go to get her roots done? MORE >>

They’re all either labor or green candidates, and while progressivism is not antithetical to those points of view, that’s not its major thrust. When waves of southern and eastern Europeans began to immigrate to this country after the Civil War, they found themselves unloved and underserved by the old line patricians who ran much of the country. The political machines were forged in response, welding these immigrants and their descendants into formidable voting blocs that effectively ran a lot of big cities for several decades. By T.M. It goes with everything. MORE >>

have used illegal immigrants many times to work on job sites. The conventional wisdom has been that to the extent there were violations, it was confined to a few rogue employers or to especially disadvantaged workers, like undocumented immigrants,” said Nik Theodore, an author of the study and a professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. What our study shows is that this is a widespread phenomenon across the low-wage labor market in the United States.” Labor Secretary Hilda L. Or is that the Fox news channels slogan? they were. MORE >>

But to be included in that measure, which is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from a monthly nationwide survey, a worker must have actively looked for a job at some point in the preceding four weeks. The bureau also has a broader category of jobless it calls “marginally attached to the labor force,” which includes discouraged workers as well as those who have stopped looking because of other reasons, like school, family responsibilities or health issues. million more people who are not in the labor force than when the recession began. Current figures show 9.7% MORE >>

Add to this the large immigration boon, the acts of 9/11 and the proliferation of negative and bullying media outlets controlled by a single source and therefore voice, Americans slow decline in Education and ultimately again a significant amount of control held by a significant few I can see the raging need for a spokesperson like Glen Beck, Michael Savage, Tom Leykis and others who supposedly represent the "average American white male." In recent decades, layoffs were the standard procedure for shrinking labor costs. The NY Times profiles one such man today. 25K in benefits. MORE >>