U.S. Job Gains in Last 10 Years
By The Associated Press
Sunday, September 5, 1999; 1:28 p.m. EDT
The change in number of Americans on company payrolls, full or part time,
from July 1989 to July 1999, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Figures exclude proprietors, the self-employed, fa
IN THIS MESSAGE: Americans Work the Longest Hours; OSHA Inspections
Falling; Pro-Union Sentiment Growing
Study: Americans Work Longest Hours
By Geir Moulson
Associated Press Writer
Sunday, September 5, 1999; 8:01 p.m. EDT
GENEVA (AP) -- Americans work the longest hours in the industrialized
w
You may have heard "shocked" reports at the Shrub raising $50 mill. for
his election campaign. Our "beloved" governor has raised $8 million for
his future reelection campaign 3 years from now. He was only sworn in a
few months ago.
He was the most "liberal" of the 3 democratic candidates, and g
Kneisel wrote:
>Increasingly, "leftists" are taking on the trappings of an absolutely
>atavistic nostalgia for long dead cultures as they lose faith in the
>ability of today's world peoples to create a better world. Often this takes
>the form of constructing new mythologies of the abilities of the
Jim wrote:
>
> This fits with my reading of what happened in the US. One reason for the
> increased conservatism of the AFL during the 1920s, for example, was that
> as it shrank, what was left were only small building-trades locals (and the
> like) which were best able to withstand the slings an
I want to agree with Carrol here very strongly. And I want to add too
that these cultures are, in many cases, far from being long dead. They
are just being killed off, with scientific precision. But let us
suppose that Jim Craven has made too great of a claim for these
societies. Does this make
Paul Kneisel wrote:
> Increasingly, "leftists" are taking on the trappings of an absolutely
> atavistic nostalgia for long dead cultures as they lose faith in the
> ability of today's world peoples to create a better world.
I tend too to be sceptical of nostalgia, BUT, you are speaking of Jim
Increasingly, "leftists" are taking on the trappings of an absolutely
atavistic nostalgia for long dead cultures as they lose faith in the
ability of today's world peoples to create a better world. Often this takes
the form of constructing new mythologies of the abilities of the lost
cultures, pre
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NY Times, September 5, 1999
Gap Between Rich and Poor Found Substantially Wider
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
The gap between rich and poor has grown into an economic chasm so wide that
this year the richest 2.7 million Americans, the top 1 percent, will have
as many after-tax dollars to spend as the b
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