I’m still working to cut and post videos from the Better Deal conference this weekend but I had tickets to U2 on Sunday so that might explain the delay… The following is a video of Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer newly elected Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO who is one of the youngest and also the [...]
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I’ve been in DC this week for conferences and meetings, but the conference I’m at today is called A Better Deal, for young people who are trying to navigate the economy in such troubling times. I’ve told you these stats before: youth have twice the unemployment than the rest of the country despite having [...]
“It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it’s also a love story. Only it’s about an abusive relationship.
A few years ago when the gross incompetence with Enron occurred you had elected officials clamoring to hold someone accountable. Enron wanted to know about the executives and their part in the wrongdoings that bankrupted the company in a $600-million loss, swindled its shareholders, investors, and employees who thought their pensions were safe with Enron investments. Officials at the Justice Department were forming a task force to conduct a criminal investigation of Enron executives and at one point on Capitol Hill, there were five congressional panels looking into the company’s collapse.
Fast forward five years: Countrywide Mortgage reports a $1.2billion stock tumble after reporting that they were losing $1billion in mortgage defaults.
News of Thursday’s hearing comes just weeks after the 80 Million Strong Coalition issued a formal letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) requesting a hearing to exhibit the financial concerns of young Americans. “This is a big victory for young people,” said Matthew Segal, “we are confident that Thursday’s hearing will demonstrate how our generation has developed and expanded its record-breaking civic engagement since the 2008 election
We all know the economy has been on a bit of a rough patch to say the least, and as a result of that students across every college campus in the Nation are facing similar worries. Tuition costs are rising, healthcare costs are rising, and really about every other cost out there is [...]
That Wizards soccer team’s new stadium project has picked Wyandotte County as there new home. The Wizards soccer team was originally on the Missouri side of Kansas City, and recently has been playing at the Community America Ballpark at Village West on the Kansas side. The new stadium plans are just part [...]
In October the economic youth organization Demos will host the Better Deal 2009 conference. It comes at an opportune time since last week the AFL-CIO released a new study addressing the economic state of young Americans, and their conclusions. Young Workers: A Lost Decade. In the spirit of Labor Day I felt the 10 year tracking study was relevant to the future of Kansas.
Another bleak report for young people trying to make a living. Oddly enough the same stats from the AFLCIO study I posted this morning are similar to teens. And its probably important to mention that these are teens that WANT a job – not just teens being forced by their parents to wait tables over the summer.
Like their older counterparts, teens are the last to be hired and the first to be shoved out of the door in the recession.
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