The focus during the unemployment crisis has been largely on those who have lost their jobs, but students and first-time job seekers have been hit hard as well. Viany Orozco of Demos points out that for those who enter the workforce for the first time during a recession, the wage hit can last for many years down the road.
Orozco joins guest host Ed Ott, a longtime labor activist, and Tahir Duckett of the AFL-CIO's Working America to talk about youth unemployment, why it matters, and how it connects to the student activism springing up around the country.
Hey AFL CIO
It ain’t just millenials, it’s gen x too. we aren’t getting benefits either, we are barely making it, some of us STILL live at home, student loans up the wazoo. Between us and the millenials, we got numbers, don’t divide us, we bleed into one another.
By who on March 10th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Why racism? Interesting you ask this question.
This divide and conquer and how to use it is as old as Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia, etc.
It was so useful it was enshrouded in the Abrahamic traditions, and their foundational texts which were national epic myths for this very purpose of nation state building defining us vs them…very useful and Constantine saw that. None of the Eastern religions use that kind divide and conquer metaphor and allegory.
But, anyway, this technique has worked like a charm for ruling elites ever since to incense common people to wage war against anyone chosen as the fall guy. It is a diversionary tactic that the creators of Tea Party (i.e. Heritage Foundation protegees, News Corporation, etc.) need right now in an econ collapse brought on by self-serving shareholders and funders who are in no danger of a homeless night!
This is text book ABC. I hope you honestly don’t expect a logical self-conscious answer to your question from the people you are asking it to.
Anyway, the people to ask it of are the organizers and backers, like the guy you had on a few months ago. That would be a fascinating squirm to capture on video.
Not the people on the street, who are mere pawns in all of this responding as many economically vulnerable have throughout history in a moment of high anxiety and economic collapse, and a complete well timed and well planned cloud of scaremongering disempowering disinformation for decades.
But, I am sure he would back pedal and say “it is not the official party line…we can’t control speech of local organizers”…which isn’t right with the iron fist of the Reps or Dems used against their own a la Massa, or Kuchinich…conveniently this stuff just tends to roll out on its own once it gets a little seed, or a little bitty hardly perceptible push!
And certainly you’ll never see the people on Fox say “it is not official Tea Party line to pedal racism guys!” The minorities are not really to blame here…here are some numbers and facts and figures…never never never
FCC licenses haven’t required anything like that since about 1988! Neither has the Supreme Court on any constitutional basis such as “created equal” or “self-determination” never never either!
By planckbrandt on March 10th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
The AFL CIO and it’s baby boomers generation are mostly responsible for the the present Lost Decade for Unemployed Youth. The union leadership have been in the service of corporations like GM signing contracts with orphan clauses that have begrudged the youth of decent and full time jobs. Instead of resisting corporations who were undercutting contract clauses and working conditions, the baby boomers looked after their own needs and ratified these orphan clauses into the contracts, hence these clauses became part and parcel of bringing on this sociological situation. Baby boomer’s have shown through their inaction that they do not love their children and cop out and surrender futur work conditions that would one day benefit their children’s future like their own father’s and mother’s did for them once upon a time. This baby boomer generation of wimps and their union cronies wimps have knuckled in to corporate pressure instead of defending our work conditions and the future of our children in the process. Baby boomers should be ashamed as a collective for their lack of courage and leaving their children in a lurch with their lame excuses blaming others for their lack of will as workers. GRITtv should investigate and inform “we the people” about the real issues that have brought on this situation of unemployed youth instead instead of participating in the present spin as if no one is responsible for this situation. Take care.
By Briansz on March 15th, 2010 at 5:48 pm