Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment

Jul. 23, 2012

By Eric Auld
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( TRIGGER WARNING: suicide )

In the Great Recession, Even Death Is Too Expensive for the Poor

Editor's Note: This story was written for New America Media as the first in a series of columns by Dr. Sanjay Basu called A Doctor's Word, exploring the impact of the recession on health care for poor people. It appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle's Insight and on SFGate.com. ( Read more... )

The recession didn't gut the prospects of American young people. The Baby Boomers took care of that.

By Stephen Marche


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Grading Student Loans

Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Maricar Mabutas,*
and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Student loans support the education of millions of students nationwide, yet much is unknown about the student loan market. Relevant data are limited and, for the most part, anecdotal. Also, sources tend to focus on recent college graduates ( Read more... )

As children grow up and venture out into the world, the transition from a bustling household to an empty one can be difficult - so, why not skip it all together?

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I hope all of those Republicans who claim that this administration spends too much sees this article. Of course, I suppose it can be claimed that the Republican-controlled House was partly responsible, too. There are charts in the linked article.

Barack Obama, Austerity PresidentImagine an alternate reality where the first term of President ( Read more... )

Job applicants sought - but only if they don't need work ( Read more... )

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Greg Carroll left his job as an executive chef in 2009, when  his boss asked him to slash his 500-person staff by half. Since then, Carroll has done some catering, some consulting and some cooking in private homes. But full-time work has proven elusive.

So a few months ago, the 51-year-old Carroll posted an ad on Care.com, a site that pairs ( Read more... )