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34411 jobs -- rank: 1000

Chris wrote: >Alright, well income vs wage accounts for a good part of it and >the 'wage' vs. 'income' didn't go unnoticed originally. > >However I still thought the wages seemed low. $52,000 a year in >1999 was among the top 10%tile of U.S. Wage earners? It's the 90th percentile hourly wage, converted to an annual at 2000 hours/year. So it's the border between the 9th and 10th deciles. Since it includes lots of part-time workers, the yearly numbers would be lower, especially for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 13:41:05 PDT 2000

34412 Henwood & Employment #s. -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is anecdotal and merely a memory from 30 years ago. So for what >it is worth. A friend of mine (on the lam for destroyiing public property >in Carbondale during the Kent State followup disorders) worked for >a parts plant in Detroit with low pay and long hours. There was some >effort to unionize it -- but not only did they not get any support from >the UAW but had to hold their meeings in the open in a public park >because the UAW would not even loan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 13:26:54 PDT 2000

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Mark Rickling wrote: >Yep. This time last year I was working on a UAW blitz of independent parts >suppliers in Michigan. One morning the VP of organizing gave an overview of >the industry to the staff organizers. A major point he made was that today >there are as many auto manufacturing jobs in the US as there were in the >early 70s, at the height of UAW membership. More even. U.S. employment in motor vehicles & equipment, thousands and percent of total employment: 1960 72 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 13:16:50 PDT 2000

34414 jobs -- rank: 1000

Chris wrote: >I'm puzzled by the way these numbers work out. > >The top 20% of households in 1998 was $127,000. > >The 90%tile of workers in 1999 was 52%. Assuming >that a household has two wage earners in a similar >earnings basis (which is certainly >not< valid >in the real world) that makes the top 10%tile averaging >104,000 a year. It would also make the top 20%tile >making about 78,000 a year. > >The number also seem awfully low in my opinion. You ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 11:39:49 PDT 2000

34415 police shooting stats? -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >I'm working on an article called "Demythologizing the Police: Moving >Beyond the Cult of the Dead Cop." I've been doing some research and >found, thanks to this list, some great BLS stats about the fatality >rates for police. > >What I need now, and have had some difficulty finding, is good data on >how often, how many citizens are killed, shot, assaulted by police >nationally. > >Does anyone have a good resource for that kind of thin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 11:24:06 PDT 2000

34416 The New Upper Class -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: So is De Sade , beyond moldy in the grave. "It's so bourgeois". Michel Foucault, quoted in David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault, pp. 368-369 <quote> The idea that S&M is related to a deep violence, that S&M practice is a way of liberating this violence, this aggression, is stupid. We know very well that what all those people are doing is not aggressive; they are inventing new possibilities of pleasure with strange parts of their body - t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 10:14:37 PDT 2000

34417 Fwd: Bush's Social Security play -- rank: 1000

X-From_: everything at gwbush.com Fri May 19 10:46:44 2000 From: "gwbush.com" <everything at gwbush.com> To: <press at gwbush.com> Subject: Bush's Social Security play Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:43:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 See gwbush.com's parody on Bush's proposed "infusion of funds in the market." http://gwbush.com -Zack

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 10:09:04 PDT 2000

34418 Columbia U, Inc. -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 19, 2000 Drug Companies Object as Columbia U. Asks Powerful Alumnus to Push Patent-Law Change By JEFFREY BRAINARD Washington Columbia University has drawn criticism from pharmaceutical companies for asking Sen. Judd Gregg, a Columbia alumnus, to push for a change in patent law that could help it to extend a patent for a biotechnology-manufacturing process -- a change that could bring the institution more than $35-million. Mr. Gregg, a Republican fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:51:49 PDT 2000

34419 jobs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In 1969 #25,000 a year virtually put one in the margins of the >ruling class. I would like to see a chart of household incomes >more finely divided than by quintiles. Just what is the level at >which one is living off the labor of others? My daughter (a >computer consultant) describes her salary as obscene (and her >husband, also a computer consulatant, has incorporated himself). >So they are at that level. But where (even crudely) is the dividing >line ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:35:41 PDT 2000

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Percentage change in employment between the date shown and April 2000. You know, like a change from 1.0 million to 1.1 million would be +10%. Doug Carrol Cox wrote: >I guess I'm being opaque, but I can't quite read this chart. That is, >I can't get a grasp on what the percentages are percentages *of*. > >Carrol > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> PERCENT CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT THROUGH APRIL 2000 >> >> manufacturing > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:36:48 PDT 2000

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Michael Perelman wrote: >Is that because of SUV's and pickup trucks replacing cars? I don't know if that's the way I'd put it exactly, but people are buying lots of motor vehicles. SUVs have replaced cars, which probably means no more workers, but much bigger profits for the auto companies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:14:14 PDT 2000

34422 NYC wages -- rank: 1000

A few more bits of info on NYC wages, courtesy of Heather Boushey: In 1988/89, the median hourly wage in NYC was $14.31 (in 1999 dollars); in 1998/99, it was $12.25, a real decline of over 14%. The share of workers earning less than $10.73/hr in 1988/89 (again in 1999$): 30%. In 1998/99: 42%. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:05:46 PDT 2000

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Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug--Outside of autos things don't look to good do they? > >I was talking with the president of a large, if not the largest UAW >local in Ohio >yesterday. This gentleman tells me that if China PNTR goes through >chances are a >huge expansion plan by a major automaker here in Ohio will be >derailed. The way >he sees it the parts plants and the assembly plants are on there way >out of the >country and all that will be left in America will be 6 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 19 09:00:54 PDT 2000

34424 jobs -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 07:21 PM 5/18/00 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>[via Michael Eisenscher. Organize janitors, and earn wages at the >>95th percentile!] >> >>Local 32BJ SEIU in New York City is looking for 4 lead organizers and >>3 organizing coordinators. Leads pay $55,000 to $65,000 per year and >>Coordinators $65,000-$75,000 plus good benefits. > >ain't that diddly squat in greater NYC area? or am i mistaken? Hell no. Do you realize how little peopl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 17:02:12 PDT 2000

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Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug---I'd be curious to know in what manufacturing "industries" there has >been job creation or job growth since 1994. I do know there is quite a bit >of sweatshop manufacturing and low wage, little or no benefit manufacturing >going on around the country. These low wage-no benefit conditions will only >get worse as more of these trade deals get done! PERCENT CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT THROUGH APRIL 2000 manufacturing ------------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 16:39:04 PDT 2000