[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- We can still blame black people, though
- In that Times article on millionaires not paying their mortgages, the one concrete example they cite is a rapper…
- Seeing the Forest: Too Old For A Job, Too Young For Medicare Or Social Security
- [via Hullabaloo]
Here is a fact: There. Are. No. Jobs. I'm in Silicon Valley where the official unemployment rate dipped in May to 11.2%. This dip was, of course, because of so many people just giving up trying to get a job, certainly not because of some wave of hiring. The underemployed figure, known as "U-6," is 21.7% in California, 16.7% nationally.
You have to know someone to get a humiliating job standing on a corner waving a sign. And if you are over 40, things are even worse than that. [...]
Age discrimination is a thing with me because it is so blatant here. It's the culture here, some even say that for programmers it is "35 and out." At various times looking for work I've been told I "seemed tired" and things like that. I was even told once that I wouldn't be able to market some software because I "wouldn't be able to get my mind around" how it worked—when I had designed and written part of it in a previous life.
- More Burrowers In The Bureaucracy
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
Continuing the criminal neglect of science and reason in policy making is governing malpractice.
[Read the article Digby links to. -L]
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