Before Class on Tuesday, 09/28
Read: EPI Staff (2021)
Read: @comradecloset et al. (2019)
In Class
Slides: Labor and the Profit Motive
Before Class on Friday, 10/01
Have completed/attempted all of Weekly Review 4
Material Links
@comradecloset, @subversive.thread, and @abolish_time. (2019). “Why We Say #Abolish Work” 25 June. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJObj4Av4f/
EPI Staff. (2021). Economic Indicators: Jobs and Unemployment. 3 September. https://www.epi.org/indicators/unemployment/
Optional
Picchi, Aimee. (2021). “Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity.” CBS News. 7 September. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity/
Week 6 “Employment”
1. EPI Staff. (2021). Economic Indicators: Jobs and Unemployment. 3 September says every month in the U.S, a government agency releases a report on the employment situation for the previous month. Their release includes data on job growth, unemployment, and wage growth, which gives us a snapshot of the health of the economy and whether it’s working for ordinary Americans. Do you know what a government agency it is?
2. I read and I learned in “Picchi, Aimee. (2021). “Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity.” CBS News. 7 September “The federal minimum wage in the U.S. has remained glued at $7.25 an hour for the last 12 years, the longest stretch without a boost since it was first adopted in 1938”.
3. Also, I read that problem for the average workers in the U.S, so the Baker’s opinion about the analysis The COVID-19 Delta variant he says that many white-collar workers won’t return to the office until 2022, while many lower-wage workers continue to cope with the risk of getting infected, not to mention confrontations with anti-mask or anti-vaccine customers.