Just where will this new Super Committee of Congressional Budget-Cutters come up with more than a trillion bucks in federal spending savings, as mandated by that Grand Bargain reached by Congress this summer to raise the federal government debt ceiling?
The August issue of Mother Jones magazine asks a relevant question: Corporate profits are better than ever. So why are you, and pretty much everyone else, having to work harder and harder, for less and less?
The largest human mass movement occurs each spring in China when 135 million migrant workers leave their factory jobs in China’s smog-choked industrial cities to journey to their home villages in farmlands hundreds and thousands of miles away to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Last evening I was entertained by flipping TV channels between Fox News and MSNBC for right and left, conservative and liberal, reactions to The Great Debt Ceiling Debate of 2011.
I know through ISHN reader surveys over the years that most readers really don’t care much about workplace safety and health issues and practices in anyplace outside of the U.S.
The fellow sitting next to me asked if we did these kinds of company profiles in ISHN. I said, “No, actually, a lot of companies don’t want to talk much about their safety.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count combat injuries and deaths in its annual surveys. If it did, the military would unquestionably qualify as America’s most dangerous job.
Take a look around and you might wonder what’s happened to the art of communication. We seldom talk to bank tellers; simply take our business to an ATM. Make AMTRAK reservations, for instance, and you talk slowly to a voice recognition system. How many companies do you call these days and get a live operator?
