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recession unemployment

Wall Street occupation for the 99%

October 3, 2011 by Maynard Seider 1 Comment

The first thing I felt when I arrived at Liberty Park in New York City this past Saturday was the energy. It brought me back to the late ‘60s when I was a graduate student in Wisconsin. Now, in what might become the American Autumn, hundreds of men and women, mostly in their 20s and […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Class in The News, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: corporate welfare, recession unemployment, social movements, tax the rich

Faking your way into a working-class job

June 4, 2010 by Betsy Leondar-Wright 3 Comments

Laid-off professionals are “dumbing down” their resumes to avoid being rejected as overqualified when applying for jobs outside their former field, reported the Boston Globe. Job seekers are deleting graduate degrees and high-level jobs, and revising titles (for example, from Marketing Director to Marketing Manager). It was Globe reporter Katie Johnston Chase who chose the […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: recession unemployment

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