The Toll on the ‘Cleaners’ of the Social Media Content Moderation Industry
"... in extreme cases, some moderators have even become addicted to the graphic content they are required to moderate."
27 October 2020 - 19:02
Most US States Have Reopened Their Economies, So Why Does Unemployment Continue to Spiral out of Control?
"... we continue to see Americans lose jobs at a pace that is far beyond anything we have ever seen before in all of U.S. history."
5 June 2020 - 10:34
Visualizing Layoffs at Prominent Startups Triggered by COVID-19
"Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who was granted a $45M earnings package in 2018, announced he will also waive his $1M base salary for the remainder of the year."
3 June 2020 - 00:25
How Coronavirus Is Forcing Americans Into Early Retirement
"... two-thirds of the study respondents were not saving enough for retirement, while almost 9 out of 10 didn’t have a financial plan."
15 May 2020 - 14:48
Economic Catastrophe: Millions upon Millions of Jobs That Have Been Lost Are Never Coming Back
Forty-two percent of workers experiencing recent layoffs will suffer permanent job losses, according to estimates in an NBER paper.
12 May 2020 - 07:22
Millions of Americans Are Now Making Far More Money Being Unemployed Than They Did When They Were Actually Working
"... businesses all over America are not going to be able to “return to normal” if millions upon millions of workers simply do not want to work."
24 April 2020 - 21:48
Glenn Fahey: Universal Basic Income Is Still an Unbelievably Bad Idea
"...when the costs are being counted, there’ll surely be little left in the piggy bank to fund a UBI."
20 April 2020 - 04:48
Michael Snyder: This Is the Worst Employment Collapse in US History by a Very Wide Margin
"...we have lost 710 jobs for every confirmed US death from COVID-19..."
17 April 2020 - 13:48
A Pandemic Iceberg Hits the ‘Unsinkable’ U.S. Economy: A Map Ahead
"Goldman Sachs expects an unemployment rate of 16% or higher, levels not seen since the Great Depression."
16 April 2020 - 20:06
Paul Craig Roberts: Are We Brewing a New Feudalism?
"Write-offs for the One Percent, and more indebtedness for everyone else."
16 April 2020 - 16:52
The Front Line: Visualizing the Occupations with the Highest COVID-19 Risk
"Data has also shown that working from home is largely reserved for America’s higher earners."
15 April 2020 - 21:07
Graham Gudgin: When Can We Get Back to Work?
"It is now painfully obvious that the pandemic in Europe, including the UK, is orders of magnitude worse than in the far east."
13 April 2020 - 16:48
NFIB Survey: Previous Recession Warnings Now a Reality
"Simply, it is small businesses that drive the economy, employment, and wages."
9 April 2020 - 19:48
Lance Roberts: Employment Concerns Becoming an Ugly Reality
"Pay attention to employment and wages. The data suggests the current “bear market” cycle has only just begun."
2 April 2020 - 19:48
Michael Snyder: What Is America Going to Look Like with Tens of Millions of Unemployed Workers?
"Officials all over the world are going to be balancing the need to protect life with the need to resume economic activity for a long time to come."
2 April 2020 - 08:29
A Massive Surge of Unemployment Like America Has Never Seen Before
"California Governor Gavin Newsom says that a million residents of his state have filed for benefits “just since March 13”…"
26 March 2020 - 16:06
Lance Roberts: Everyone Wanting to Buy Suggests the Bear Still Prowls
"As noted above, bear markets do not end with investors wanting to “buy” the market. They end when “everyone wants to sell.”"
21 March 2020 - 22:48
The Coronavirus Collapse Is Here: Get Ready for the US Unemployment Rate to Hit Twenty Percent or Higher!
"... it is being reported that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin just told members of Congress that this crisis could ... push our unemployment rate up to 20 percent…"
18 March 2020 - 10:48
Bill Blain: Is There a Plan? Nope.
"At some point in the future, someone is going to pull all the data together. They will closely examine the hospital logs, analyse the transmission number and the infection rate, and do a cost-benefit analysis of the efforts to contain the virus. They may well conclude governments overreacted..."
12 March 2020 - 10:48
The Rise of the New Trade Unions
"A return towards communitarianism among conservative-minded theorists has caused other strands of conservative thinking to re-evaluate the approach to trade unions."
16 January 2020 - 01:48
The Robots Are Coming, and They Are Going to Take Over Millions of Jobs
"The good news is that the full extent of this ominous scenario is not likely to completely play out. The bad news is that this is because our society is rapidly moving toward complete and utter collapse."
14 January 2020 - 19:48
Bill Blain: Is Donald Trump Just a Very Lucky Guy?
"The Iranians proved themselves incompetent clowns – successfully managing to miss American troops with multiple missiles, while tragically taking out an airliner instead. Revolution on the streets again."
13 January 2020 - 19:48
Visualizing How the Demographics of China and India Are Diverging
And by the time the Indian workforce age group hits 800+ million people, it will be interesting to see how things interplay with the world’s inevitable technological shift to automation and a changing role for labour.
9 January 2020 - 13:48
2020 Democratic Nominee, Michael Bloomberg Allegedly Told Pregnant Staffer to “Kill It!”, Planned Parenthood Defends Him
According to The New York Times, the former New York City Mayor was recently forced to address the heartless, decades-old statements made to a former female staffer upon learning that she was pregnant.
21 December 2019 - 07:48