“”I’m not unusual. I’ve been on zero-hours contracts for some time and it has finally got to me. I’m…”

December 05 Comments Off on “”I’m not unusual. I’ve been on zero-hours contracts for some time and it has finally got to me. I’m…” Category: Feed, Tumblr

“I’m not unusual. I’ve been on zero-hours contracts for some time and it has finally got to me. I’m tired of thinking I’ve secured a future for me and my child, tired of thinking I won’t have to worry about whether we both eat or whether we have heating, tired of worrying how we will cope if my child loses their school coat.[…]

I’ve decided to leave teaching for a supermarket job that will give me the security of knowing how much I’ll have available to pay my bills each month.”

Zero-hours contracts are forcing me out of teaching.

“The whole generation has been stuck on a sort of cruel economic treadmill: working harder and harder…”

December 04 Comments Off on “The whole generation has been stuck on a sort of cruel economic treadmill: working harder and harder…” Category: Feed, Tumblr

“The whole generation has been stuck on a sort of cruel economic treadmill: working harder and harder without really getting much further ahead.”

Millennials are way more educated than their parents. They are also paid less.

“The name doesn’t have some clever double-meaning, and there’s nothing arch about it. The…”

October 11 Comments Off on “The name doesn’t have some clever double-meaning, and there’s nothing arch about it. The…” Category: Feed, Tumblr

“The name doesn’t have some clever double-meaning, and there’s nothing arch about it. The Homeland Generation is a generation named in language of a terror-obsessed era that it was too young to experience acutely; a generation subjected to crushing surveillance by suddenly and unaccountably insane parents, fixated on their own pre-war-on-terror, pre-millenial childhoods.”

The Homeland Generation.

Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

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Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects:

America’s labor force is shrinking as the “Baby Boom” generation ages out. But projected patterns, decreasing availability of middle-skill (those for undergrad degree holders) jobs and increasing competition for low-skill jobs (like burger-flipping) shows that the baby boomers’ departure from the workforce is likely a scorched earth affair.