Tag: economy

Article: Management?

Management?

Meantime, the top one tenth of one percent, such as hedge fund managers, and the DeVos and Koch families, are doing just fine, and all too many of them are trying to find ways to lower their taxes and keep down labor costs, regardless of the devastating impact on most working Americans.

—L. E. Modesitt, Jr.:  February 7th, 2014

http://www.lemodesittjr.com/2014/02/07/management/

As if I needed another reason to detest the Koch brothers.  I and my husband actively boycott any products produced by a company owned by the Koch brothers.  It can make shopping an interesting and sometimes more expensive experience.

Article: The 10 Companies Paying Americans The Least: 24/7 Wall Street

The 10 Companies Paying Americans The Least: 24/7 Wall Street

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/16/companies-pay-americans_n_4288090.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Not happy Kroger made this list. I already don’t shop at WalMart or Target. Don’t know that I can give up my local Dillons.

Posted from WordPress for Android via my Samsung smartphone. Please excuse any misspellings. Ciao, Jon

NPR: Reinventing the Dwindling Middle Class May Take a Revolution

Reinventing The Dwindling Middle Class May Take A Revolution

As the U.S. recovers from the Great Recession, one fact that’s emerging is that while jobs are coming back, most of these jobs are either high- or low-paying jobs. Middle-class jobs are not coming back, and it’s evident in towns across the Midwest like Lincoln, Ill.

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Remind me not to visit Lincoln any time soon.  I haven’t seen this sort of decline in Lansing or Leavenworth.  The tiny town I grew up in out in the county though is probably a poster child for the situation described in NPR’s article above.  Sad and scary.

Article: America’s highest earners work at least 60 hours a week—more than anyone else in the world

America’s highest earners work at least 60 hours a week—more than anyone else in the world

http://qz.com/134064/the-industrial-revolution-destroyed-the-link-between-hours-worked-and-wealth-so-why-are-we-still-working-so-much/

My husband often reminds me that there’s only a two letter difference between ‘salary’ and ‘slavery.’