You forgot Business Employment Dynamics (BED), Job Openings and Layoffs Survey (JOLTS) and Occupational Employment Statistics (OES). And then there’s the National Compensation Survey, but that’s a little different.
It’s actually a large sample, approx 428,000 establishments (way larger than the CPS which is not revised). But because the reference period is the Pay Period that contains the 12th, and because there are multiple rounds of collection (due to a lot of late reporting) there are 2 revisions.
Not quite. The CPS is conducted by the Census Bureau for BLS. The Local Area Unemployment data (states and metro areas) are a Fed-State collaboration because, while 60,000 households is fine for the National numbers, the sample from each state/metro area is too small and must be supplemented with admin data from the states.
The CES is all BLS. The QCEW is a Fed-State Program based on UI records.
So I imagine the reverse is also true? If Walker and his allies retain office, the results will be seen across the country as approval for the premise that cutting taxes for the rich while attacking unions and slashing services will spur job growth?
In one of the districts the Republican incumbant got caught hiring his mistress for a job on his staff. His own wife signed the recall petition against him. I have a vague recollection of the other loser not being well liked.
Just trying to say that specific on the ground circumstances often govern these things.
A big rap on Walker is that he is widely seen as extremely divisive and not to be trusted.
I remember the Gingrich proposal, it’s not like he was advocating hard work, just work. Nothing in his proposal intending to break up the union, that was pure conjecture on the author of that posts part.
Do you really want a list of every progressive advance from 1900-2000 and any steps taken by Republicans to repeal them? Or are you willing to accept that this can be construed (by anyone not obsessed with pedantry) as a generalization?
His proposal was to have the kids do a job that a paid staff of adults were doing now. That still falls afoul of child worker laws. Your distinction between “hard work” and “work” are irrelevant.
And I agree that a whole list is ridiculous. You should set smaller goals, like listing, say, five or so big advances that were subsequently challenged by at least a proposed bill.
They’re doing it now; see post #231 above. Dollars to Dope a lot of that legislation if not all of it was crafted by heavily-corpo-funded ALEC, and proposed by legislators who live in corporate pockets. The anti-Walker backlash, etc., is as good as it gets, right now, and might fail.
Aardvark Holding Company
Aaron Burr Firearm Insurance Co…
Its not necessarily lash and backlash, that’s not how these things are done, they are done not in chomps but in nibbles. An hour of overtime marked as an hour of straight time, nibble. Raising the assembly line pace 5 percent, nibble. You know the drill, anybody who has ever worked knows the drill. And its their drill. You see, Andy, they is the augur and you is the augeree, and they will either augur you a new one or core out the one you already have.
Because they have to! They have to remain competitive, its not like they want to, they do it mournfully and with damp sorrow. The Free Market, blessings and peace be upon its Name, compels them to such hard-nosed decisions! In fact, the ability to make such sternly realistic decisions is why they deserve to make a thousand times the hourly wage of Joe Schmuck. Takes a special kind of person.
But lash, and backlash? Heavens no, thrashing will not be necessary unless morale fails to improve.
From the link:
"For three decades after World War II – I call it the “Great Prosperity” – wages rose in tandem with productivity. Americans shared the gains of growth, and had enough money to buy what they produced.
That’s largely due to the role of labor unions. "
Really? It wasn’t that we blew up most of the rest of the worlds factories in the war? Labor unions did it. No.