LBO News from Doug Henwood » employment

Between February and April 2020, the US economy lost over 22 million jobs, almost 15% of total employment. That was by far the largest job loss since the early years of the Great Depression. Betw...

https://lbo-news.com/2021/10/19/how-recovered-is-the-job-market/

Judging from the media coverage of the work from home (WFH) phenomenon, you’d think it’s become near universal. It’s not. In July, only about one in eight workers were teleworking—the Bur...

https://lbo-news.com/2021/09/07/work-from-home-mostly-for-the-high-end/

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 1, 2021 Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade, on the murky side of the shipping business that got lost in the Ever Give...

https://lbo-news.com/2021/04/01/fresh-audio-product-259/

As the job market loses steam, and Congress dithers over a new bailout package, Americans are having a harder time paying their bills. First the job market. Employers added 245,000 jobs in Novemb...

https://lbo-news.com/2020/12/08/employment-report/

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 701,000 jobs disappeared in March. Economists had been expecting about a third that number. Hardest hit were bars and restaurants, accoun...

https://lbo-news.com/2020/04/03/miserable-employment-report/

You can hardly look at Twitter without reading something about the impending AI revolution: robots are coming for your job. I’m a skeptic. By that I don’t mean to argue that IT and AI and all...

https://lbo-news.com/2020/02/22/no-robo/

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 19, 2019 Sam Gindin on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandonin...

https://lbo-news.com/2019/09/19/fresh-audio-product-190/

On December 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next decade (or 2014–2024 to be precise). They don’t make for happy reading. The Bureau projec...

https://lbo-news.com/2015/12/21/glum-job-prospects-say-officials/

rituals of compulsory patriotism I’ll get to the May employment report in a moment, but first I wanted to say something about the Chris Hayes controversy from Memorial Day weekend. On his MSNB...

https://lbo-news.com/2012/06/03/radio-commentary-compulsory-patriotism-saggy-job-report/

Paul Krugman notes that public sector employment has declined under Obama—a sharp contrast with his two predecessors, under whom it grew (with Republican Bush ahead of Democrat Clinton). How d...

https://lbo-news.com/2012/04/26/employment-laggard-the-public-sector/