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 Frank Stricker, c.o frnkstricker@aol.com SHARE 
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Emeritus Professor of History, Labor and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills; board member of National Jobs for All Network.
Author of American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future (University of Illinois Press)
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Have We Reached Full Employment? Should The Fed Put the Brakes on Job Growth to Avoid Inflation Down the Road? The answers are no and no. Even when the official unemployment rate is 4.1%, we are not close to real full employment. And inflation is mild. If the authorities are really worried about higher inflation later on, they should start working on counter-measures that don't include higher unemployment.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018Have We Reached Full Employment? Should The Fed Put the Brakes on Job Growth to Avoid Inflation Down the Road? The answers are no and no. Even when the official unemployment rate is 4.1%, we are not close to real full employment. And inflation is mild. If the authorities are really worried about higher inflation later on, they should start working on counter-measures that don't include higher unemployment.
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Friday, December 29, 2017
Happy New Year, Sure, But Why Aren't Wages Soaring? Imaginary characters try to explain why average wages have not increased much, despite what looks like high demand for workers.
Friday, December 29, 2017Happy New Year, Sure, But Why Aren't Wages Soaring? Imaginary characters try to explain why average wages have not increased much, despite what looks like high demand for workers.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Republican Tax Cuts Are Not About Economic Growth or Lifting Working-Class Incomes Dropping individual tax rates for rich people does not lift average Americans. Neither does cutting corporate taxes, as long as there is a plentiful supply of jobless workers and few strong unions. Don't expect a big jump in real business investment when many companies already have more money than they know what to do with.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017Republican Tax Cuts Are Not About Economic Growth or Lifting Working-Class Incomes Dropping individual tax rates for rich people does not lift average Americans. Neither does cutting corporate taxes, as long as there is a plentiful supply of jobless workers and few strong unions. Don't expect a big jump in real business investment when many companies already have more money than they know what to do with.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
Poverty Down, Jobs Up, Everyone Earning More: What's Not to Like? A Father and Son Discuss the News Examines recent numbers about falling poverty, falling unemployment, rising incomes, to show that we have a long, long way to go before we are even on the road to wiping out poverty and unemployment.
Friday, October 6, 2017Poverty Down, Jobs Up, Everyone Earning More: What's Not to Like? A Father and Son Discuss the News Examines recent numbers about falling poverty, falling unemployment, rising incomes, to show that we have a long, long way to go before we are even on the road to wiping out poverty and unemployment.
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Monday, August 21, 2017
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a Job-Creation Program Reminds the reader that the ACA created many new jobs, and that they were jobs doing good things for people. But it was not perfect and it needs reform.
Monday, August 21, 2017The Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a Job-Creation Program Reminds the reader that the ACA created many new jobs, and that they were jobs doing good things for people. But it was not perfect and it needs reform.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Full Employment and How to Get It Illustrates that we have had too much unemployment and lousy wages for forty years and shows that tax cuts for the 1% won't turn things around. Describes what a full-employment America might look like.
Monday, May 15, 2017Full Employment and How to Get It Illustrates that we have had too much unemployment and lousy wages for forty years and shows that tax cuts for the 1% won't turn things around. Describes what a full-employment America might look like.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
$15 an Hour Should be the Absolute Minimum Minimum Wage $7.25 an hour is a disgrace. A $15 an hour minimum for everyone in America would be huge in a real way. But still not enough to have a comfortable living standard.
Friday, March 31, 2017$15 an Hour Should be the Absolute Minimum Minimum Wage $7.25 an hour is a disgrace. A $15 an hour minimum for everyone in America would be huge in a real way. But still not enough to have a comfortable living standard.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Thinking about an Infrastructure Program: Part I A national infrastructure program. How to begin thinking about one that is fair and efficient.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017Thinking about an Infrastructure Program: Part I A national infrastructure program. How to begin thinking about one that is fair and efficient.
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
What's Wrong with These Men? Why Aren't They Working? Why are 7 million prime-age men not working or even looking for work? Just lazy? High government benefits are better? This article reviews the explanations and emphasizes the role of lousy wages as a disincentive. Includes a list of useful sources for those who want more.
Sunday, December 11, 2016What's Wrong with These Men? Why Aren't They Working? Why are 7 million prime-age men not working or even looking for work? Just lazy? High government benefits are better? This article reviews the explanations and emphasizes the role of lousy wages as a disincentive. Includes a list of useful sources for those who want more.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Here's How Good and How Bad American Job Markets Are (Now Donald and Hillary, Pay Attention and Learn Hard to know from Donald and Hillary how much work we have to do to get to full employment. Our country is not going to disappear, as some say, but to get to full employment, which we rarely have, will be a yuge political task.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016Here's How Good and How Bad American Job Markets Are (Now Donald and Hillary, Pay Attention and Learn Hard to know from Donald and Hillary how much work we have to do to get to full employment. Our country is not going to disappear, as some say, but to get to full employment, which we rarely have, will be a yuge political task.
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
Bring Back the Jobs. But How Many? This article does the numbers on how many manufacturing jobs we could get back, even if policy was nearly perfect. It suggests focusing new jobs on poverty areas. Sounds simple, but can we do it?
Thursday, August 18, 2016Bring Back the Jobs. But How Many? This article does the numbers on how many manufacturing jobs we could get back, even if policy was nearly perfect. It suggests focusing new jobs on poverty areas. Sounds simple, but can we do it?
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Five Things You Should Know About Social Security Five bad ideas about Social Security and five better ones. And Social Security needs defending.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016Five Things You Should Know About Social Security Five bad ideas about Social Security and five better ones. And Social Security needs defending.
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
The Holidays: Arguing about Good Jobs with the Family America needs the federal government to create good jobs directly. Nothing else is doing it. Objections to this argument take the form of a family discussion at a holiday dinner.
Thursday, December 24, 2015The Holidays: Arguing about Good Jobs with the Family America needs the federal government to create good jobs directly. Nothing else is doing it. Objections to this argument take the form of a family discussion at a holiday dinner.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Jobs and More Jobs, Now and Forevermore We have lost 7 million jobs since in the meltdown; we lost millions before that, in he anemic Bush recovery from 01 recession. Private sector won't create the jobs we need. In fact, we have had a shortage of good jobs since the 70s. The Federal Government must create jobs that involve useful contributions to our society. Examples are given
Wednesday, July 29, 2009Jobs and More Jobs, Now and Forevermore We have lost 7 million jobs since in the meltdown; we lost millions before that, in he anemic Bush recovery from 01 recession. Private sector won't create the jobs we need. In fact, we have had a shortage of good jobs since the 70s. The Federal Government must create jobs that involve useful contributions to our society. Examples are given
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Obama's Job Plan: What We Can learn from the New Deal New Deal job programs show that quick action on a very large scale is possible. They were also flawed and we can do better. New jobs must be decently paid and thought of as permanent. And we need a lot of them, 2-3 million for every year of Obama's eight years. Otherwise we won't erase the job deficits of the past 8 years or keep up with a growing labor force.
Saturday, January 24, 2009Obama's Job Plan: What We Can learn from the New Deal New Deal job programs show that quick action on a very large scale is possible. They were also flawed and we can do better. New jobs must be decently paid and thought of as permanent. And we need a lot of them, 2-3 million for every year of Obama's eight years. Otherwise we won't erase the job deficits of the past 8 years or keep up with a growing labor force.
