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TheMastersNemesis

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3. When You Worked At DOL Like I Did You Learn A Lot About The Labor Market.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:37 AM
Feb 2013

What's happening in employment goes far beyond what the official stats say. You really end up in a spot where you can see all the trends and practices in the job market.

The best way I can explain the condition of the labor market is compare it to what a healthy lung looks like compared to a 40 year smoker with stage 4 lung cancer. The core of the job market is just gone compared to where it was in 1980.

I realize that the stats supposedly look good and the economy has been growing, but I see a lot of it as an illusion. I see so many horrid abuses happening that it is just sick.

My other view of the labor market is what Hiroshima looked like after the bomb. The problem is that most workers are not able to see or understand because they have been lied to and are being lied to. They also do not have the background to see or recognize what is going on.

It really bothers me to see all the horror stories floating around.

Sad, but true. Suich Feb 2013 #1
When You Worked At DOL Like I Did You Learn A Lot About The Labor Market. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #3
can you expand on that a bit? HiPointDem Feb 2013 #4
I Will Try - The Things That Are Going On Are Pervasive. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #6
that is pretty damning. i think you should work up an OP, because knowing this is important. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #8
I Used To Work With A Social Service Agency And At A Homeless Shelter TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #10
What i mean by SS agencies don't do anything is that all they *can* do is provide stopgaps. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #13
+1. In 1980, it was still fairly common for someone to work for the same employer for decades. winter is coming Feb 2013 #11
What You Posted Is Why This Country Is Just About Dead. Thank Reagan And The GOP TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #12
+1 nt Live and Learn Feb 2013 #14
I'm going to second HiPointDem in urging you to work the things you've posted in this thread tpsbmam Feb 2013 #15
As long as that thread is the eight hour day / 40 hour work week aristocles Feb 2013 #2
The Time Is Right For A "National Workers Association"...... global1 Feb 2013 #5
Ironic how anti-labor jerkweeds use the ever trite "Unions were needed in the past but not now" meme Populist_Prole Feb 2013 #7
+100. i have heard that so often, as if the abuses of the past had ceased to exist. no, they are HiPointDem Feb 2013 #9
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