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10831 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > This would explain wal-mart's interest in the whole thing, but not > stern's. Stern wants desperately to be taken seriously by CEOs and the business press. No doubt Scott and Dach understand this and saw him as a big fat sitting duck with a target painted on his back. What does labor get out of this alliance? Not much, I'd guess. Stern is not approach WMT from anything like a position of strength (see sitting duck reference, above). WMT ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 08:44:16 PDT 2007

10832 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel] -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > It would be easy to absolve Roy if her only fault was lack of > diplomacy. Her cardinal sin, however, is that she is able to clothe > her oversimplifications in a seductive sheen of authenticity - this is > a potentially dangerous skill. So far you've asserted this, but not elaborated. Could you give some examples? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 07:13:05 PDT 2007

10833 [lbo-talk] Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 18:37, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Press Release: Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who >> Attended LaRouche-Group Conference > > To paraphrase Candide: If Larouche didn't exist, liberals would have > to invent him. I first heard of LaRouche around 1977 or 1978, from a member of a far left party in Virginia whose comrades had been beaten up by his goons. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 06:59:21 PDT 2007

10834 [lbo-talk] Time Use studies -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Maybe Doug could tell us what its like to be an official student of > the dismal science. I've got 5 undergraduate semesters of economics (one of them from James Tobin, which was kinda fun). So I don't really know. But from what I've seen, it earns the dismal appellation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 06:54:32 PDT 2007

10835 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:16 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I wholeheartedly agree that kindergarten teachers are woefully > underpaid. However, keep in mind that the data you provided are about > full-time professors in higher education. No, it's the median pay of all workers in the occupational categories. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 06:49:02 PDT 2007

10836 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

[from a profile of my college classmate, political PR whiz Leslie Dach - looks like Andy Stern's falen for it] <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/02/070402fa_fact_goldberg? printable=true> Ethical ambidexterity is no barrier to success in the public- relations field, particularly in Washington. Many prominent Democrats spend the years between national elections representing corporate clients: the political consultant Carter Eskew, who has worked for such Democratic politicians ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 27 06:06:00 PDT 2007

10837 [lbo-talk] salary corrections -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > One needs a detailed breakdown by department. Cf. sociology professors > with physicists; with business profs, etc. etc etc. There are a lot of > odd corners in the academy that pay big dollars because of competition > from the outside. Huge numbers of adjuncts crowd social sciences & > humanities. And full profes there, outside the privileged 10% or so, > don't get paid all that much. Education, Training, and Library Occupat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 16:30:47 PDT 2007

10838 [lbo-talk] Stockman indicted -- rank: 1000

[given the federal prosecutors' kill rate, Stockman's future is not so bright] Washington Post - March 26, 2007 Ex-Reagan Budget Director Charged By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Federal prosecutors announced conspiracy and securities and bank fraud charges this morning against Reagan-era budget director David A. Stockman, accusing the former Republican lawmaker of misleading investors about the finances of a troubled Michigan auto parts company. Stockman, 60, surrendered to au ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 16:14:52 PDT 2007

10839 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Matt wrote: > No offense to your sister-in-law intended, but important how? More > important than ???, less than ??? In kindergarten I learned the skill > of coloring within the lines. Beyond that not much else, other than > becomed socialized to the fact that when I chose to eat, sleep, drink, > or use the restroom would be at the whim of some random authority > figure. > > Kindergarten teachers still make more than the median US income, n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 16:11:49 PDT 2007

10840 [lbo-talk] salary corrections -- rank: 1000

Sorry, that average postsecondary teaching salary I quoted earlier *was* the median; I misread the table. The 8% difference probably comes from the fact that the survey sources are different. By the way, the source is the BLS's annual review of earnings by occupation and sex <http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2005.pdf>. The average female postsecondary teacher earns 79% as much as a male. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 15:53:43 PDT 2007

10841 [lbo-talk] Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference -- rank: 1000

Press Release: Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2007 ..... Press Release..... Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference BOSTON PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet, an internationally known expert on the political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche, has been assisting the mother of a young British man found dead after trying to leave a conference sponsored by a LaRouch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 15:37:33 PDT 2007

10842 [lbo-talk] skew -- rank: 1000

So the mean weekly salary for postsecondary teachers is less than 8% higher than the median. That's not all that big a skew. For household income, the mean is 37% higher than the median - and that's with the top-coding technique that the Census Bureau uses, which treats all incomes above $999,999 as $999,999, allegedly to preserve confidentiality. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 15:35:37 PDT 2007

10843 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Nicely caught, John! We've got relatively few academic superstars at > the private universities in the six digits, and we've got a > multitude of > adjunct faculty making $27,000 per year (annualized load). The > mean is > a pointless statistic here. I doubt it overstates matters by all that much. For the education jobs that the BLS does report median and mean for, the skew isn't all that huge <http://www.bls.gov/oes/cu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 15:21:27 PDT 2007

10844 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:31 PM, John Adams wrote: > By average, I expect you mean the mean. What's the median? They don't say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 14:58:31 PDT 2007

10845 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > DC's got it: 50-70% of the faculty in most colleges and > universities are > nontenured, part-time instructors who serve at the will of the > college. > No job security, no benefits, typically 1/3 the pay of tenured faculty > teaching the same course. (Can you tell I still have a bitter > taste in > my mouth from my years as an adjunct faculty member?) According to the BLS, the average postsecondary teacher makes $1,072 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 14:13:17 PDT 2007