Tag: Unemployment
Laid off Americans resort to the jobs you always avoided.
When putting your ego and humility aside takes you to the ski fields.
Out of the Sunday section of the New York Times Styles section comes the self flagellating tale of (once) upwardly mobile Americans who have had to resort...
It’s Confirmed: Banks Don’t Care For You If You Are Poor.
Wealth in America.
An interesting report from the Washington Post today offers some sobering observations- it doesn’t pay off to be poor. In fact the situation is so dire for most households who earn less than $30, 000 that the...
Terror: India Labor Class Uprising 2009.
Why the Yanks prefer to ignore their pain instead.
You might not know it but India has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in recent years. With 8 percent annual growth there has been a shifting...
Mike Bloomberg Ran on “Progress not Politics.” Whose Idea of Progress?
Special Guest Contribution from Clayton Patterson.
Bloomberg loves us, wants to protect us, save us. He wants to make us financially secure. At least that is what he promised when he used his enormous wealth to flip the democratic...
Modern Racism, The Social Stealth Bomber.
Growing up in America, many of us have been exposed to racism in one form or another, usually only from one side of the fence. Characteristics that define each culture and race often go by unappreciated or misunderstood...
NYPD Felon. No longer an oxymoron.
Bernard Kerik becomes the first NYPD commissioner in over 100 years to admit to committing a felony.
We here at Scallywag are less dedicated to breaking the news to you than we are to showing our utter disgust for it....
Legends of the Village Annual Benefit Gets Down.
The Village is one of the most celebrated neighborhoods in the city, enjoying many distinctions not least of which include its nonconformist attitude to the grid street layout and its importance in the bohemian movement. It is also widely...
The Dow Jones Industrials hits 10,000 while more people hit the shelters.
The paradox of living in America.
Here is an interesting phenomena. Last week the Dow Jones crossed 10,000 points for the first time in 2 years while more people are hitting the shelters. It used to be that when the...
It’s confirmed, California has now become a Banana Republic.
When the American dream no longer works in certain parts of America…
Out of the Guardian comes a sobering report on the current state of affairs in California which has now in some perverse way begun to resemble many of...
It’s confirmed. You are going to spend the rest of your life unemployed and disillusioned.
When the statistics start to point to some grim realities what are you going to do?
Just released from the labor department is the dour news that your life is going to remain perilous, miserable and stoked...
