Great link to unemployment info

This is my favorite, the Chicago Tribune lays off its recession reporter:

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/04/24/chicago-tribune-lays-off-its-recession-reporter/?ref=layoffdaily.com

They're not layoffs, they're creative destruction implementations. They're good.

You know, I was thinking about our use of the term layoff. This is rather central to our problem. During the economic contractions in the 70s and 80s, people really did get laid off. Their plant manager told them to stay at home, and a few weeks or months later, when the pesky inventory overhang had been worked through, they received a call to come on back.

People largely aren't being laid off now, they're being fired.

alanhart, thrift is good?

Thrift is good for other people. Short-term profits are good for me. By whom I don't mean me, but rather the greater me.

alanhart, W. is on line 2. wondering if you might be interested in helping him pen his memoirs. he didn't really understand what you wrote, but it really resonated with him. or it would have if he used such words, i think he actually said he liked the comment's truthiness.

This is sad. Waverly, here is that uptick I've been seeing early signs of in education layoffs. Hopefully these are layoffs in the usual sense of the word, and with a state stimulus package passing sometime in the future the majority of the teachers can go back to work.

www.layoffdaily.com/education.txt