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Study: 77 Percent of Latina Retail Workers Earn Less Than $10/hr – COLORLINES
A new study by the Retail Action Project and the City University of New York released data that shows a dramatic gender gap in wages in the retail industry — one in which black and Latina women are hit the hardest.
The report is based on data collected by 435 retail workers at national companies. According to information pulled from those surveys, women earn an average of $9.00 per hour, compared to $10.13 per hour earned by men. Those numbers are especially pronounced for women of color —53 percent of black women and 77 percent of Latina women earn less than $10 per hour.
While many retailers benefited from Black Friday weekend sales, the workers who were hired to help meet that demand are often stuck in temporary, low-wage jobs, according to the study.
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Pow Wows in Literature: Books That Offer a Look Inside the World of the Pow Wow – ICTMN.com
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With ‘Lie Of The Year’ Controversy, Fact Checking Comes Under Scrutiny : It’s All Politics : NPR
The fact-checking movement has been gaining momentum and gaining fans. Journalistic fact checkers serve as referees by calling foul — and fair — on various assertions by politicians, public figures and pundits with heavily documented analyses. But a slow-burn backlash flared into the open this past week.
Much of it centered on Bill Adair, the editor-in-chief of the Pulitzer-Prize winning PolitiFact project from the St. Petersburg Times. …
“A fairly large proportion of the time, [PolitiFact are] not actually calling out factual inaccuracies — they are suggesting that their interpretation of facts is superior to the one that a politician is offering,” he says.
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The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 5th Annual Smackdown Awards | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Native American Netroots:: Indian Art in the Late 19th Century
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Sady Doyle: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
There is no slogan more misunderstood, or more widely abused, than “the personal is political.” This phrase was one of the most transformative ideas to emerge from second-wave feminism, or from the 20th century. …What it means is this: You take the most intimate, difficult, unseemly moments from your own life. You look to see if anyone else has experienced anything like them. You look for what you have in common with those people — your gender, your socioeconomic status, your career, your race. And then, you speak about what that means for the world. …
“The personal is political” is also, I eventually came to realize, the essential factor in all of the essays I remembered from 2011. The pieces I’ve chosen are all about personal matters, in one way or another, and they all address huge social problems by focusing on one woman’s specific experience. They all raise questions without easy answers: …
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The 10 Worst Economic Ideas of 2011 » New Deal 2.0
Germany is especially proud that it has exported its way to becoming the strong man of Europe. It has suppressed wage growth, used subsidies to make its products more competitive, and taken advantage of the fixed euro, set at too low a rate to maintain trade balances. It is determined to remain oblivious to the fact that such a model requires countries that buy its products to run deficits and therefore borrow lots of money. This is why export models are known as beggar-thy-neighbor models, and it is why Germany has a moral obligation to help bail out nations like Greece, Italy, and Spain. Export models are really debt models on a global scale. …
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