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Saturday, 12 May 2018
quote [ If we're going to reverse the 40-year decline of the middle class and reduce the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else, we must restore the constitutional right of workers to collectively bargain for a better life. ]
Bernie is going to put the power of a platform to the test. He is going to run into some strong head wins. The constant barrage of noise coming out of Trump, His own party trying desperately to hang on to the old order, and most important a News Media who has no incentive to cover him or his message.
The forces allied against him a formidable probably even stronger than in 16 The difference this time is he is not coming in to this late or unprepared.
First of all he is not unknown has face recognition and a known record to run on. He has a viable political organization and has a presence in cyber space. But next week there will be another network or newspaper story about how The Democratic Party stands for nothing but the anti Trump party or that Do Democrats Really Need a Message? even though it is plainly said... Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need ... We must ensure that no full-time worker lives in poverty. The current federal minimum wage is starvation pay and must become a living wage. We must increase the MW to $15 dollars an hour ... Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet... Private prisons...Student debt....and all of these have white papers laying out of the details. Bottom line it looks like Bernie is in this and if the Old SOB has one more run in I am going to follow...
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electric guppy said @ 3:17am GMT on 14th May
We are at full employment
If I can find the article I read a few days ago on this point, I will follow up with a link. The author's premise was that we are not at full employment. The official unemployment numbers only include people actively looking for work.
There is a large pool of uncounted potential workers who will take work if it becomes available. This pool is the reason wages continue to remain low, and will remain low until the pool shrinks enough (whatever percentage that turns out to be). But we need some other statistics beyond the official unemployment numbers in order to get a handle on the wage situation.
electric guppy said @ 3:39am GMT on 14th May
We are at full employment
If I can find the article I read a few days ago on this point, I will follow up with a link. The author's premise was that we are not at full employment. The official unemployment numbers only include people actively looking for work.
There is a large pool of uncounted potential workers who will take work if it becomes available. This pool is the reason wages continue to remain low, and will remain low until the pool shrinks enough (whatever percentage that turns out to be). But we need some other statistics beyond the official unemployment numbers in order to get a handle on the wage situation.
Update: Although I have not yet located the (fuller) analysis I was thinking of, this is a brief summary: There Is No U.S. Wage Growth Mystery (14 Jul 2017)
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electric guppy said @ 3:17am GMT on 14th May [Score:2]
We are at full employment
If I can find the article I read a few days ago on this point, I will follow up with a link. The author's premise was that we are not at full employment. The official unemployment numbers only include people actively looking for work.
There is a large pool of uncounted potential workers who will take work if it becomes available. This pool is the reason wages continue to remain low, and will remain low until the pool shrinks enough (whatever percentage that turns out to be). But we need some other statistics beyond the official unemployment numbers in order to get a handle on the wage situation.
Update: Although I have not yet located the (fuller) analysis I was thinking of, this is a brief summary: There Is No U.S. Wage Growth Mystery (14 Jul 2017)
