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The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor force‏ Because of us, California is healthier‏(SEIU) Revealed: Full List of ALEC's Corporate Members   May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement  Miami Workers Center Cleans Foreclosed Home And Delivers Trash To Owner, Bank Of America (PHOTOS)  NYPD May Be Using Warrant Squads to Monitor Protesters  VIDEO ALERT: NNU Executive Director & May 18 Chicago Promo CalSTRS to oppose Wal-Mart directors over Mexico bribery scandal  Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide   The Real Job Creators: Everyday Americans, Not the 1%  
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The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor force‏Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the March number upward to 154,000, but that’s still abysmal relative to what’s needed). We need well over 250,000 new jobs per month in order to begin to whittle down the vast number of jobs lost in the Great Recession. At least 125,000 new jobs are necessary each month just to keep up with an expanding population of working-age people.With only 115,000 jobs in April, the hole is getting even deeper. Most observers pay attention to the official rate of unemployment, which edged down to 8.1 percent in April from 8.2 percent in March. That may sound like progress, but it’s not. The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor force, too discouraged to look for work. The household survey, from which the rate is calculated, counts as “unemployed” only people who are actively looking for work. If you stop looking because the job scene looks hopeless for you, you’re no longer counted. In the winter months — December, January, and February – hiring had seemed to pick up, averaging over 250,000 new jobs per month. Then the mini-surge stopped. The simplest explanation is that the mild winter across much of the United States gave an unusual boost to hiring then, leading to a correction by the spring.Most of the job gains in April were in lower-wage industries – retail stores, restaurants, and temporary-help. That means average wages continue to drop, adjusted for inflation – continuing their long-term decline. Most of the new jobs that have been added to the U.S. economy during this recovery have paid less than the jobs that were lost during the downturn.What does all this mean? Together with other recent data showing slower economic growth during the first quarter of this year, it’s safe to say the economy has stalled.  Help us speak truth to power. Donate what you can afford to support NationofChange. This is bad news for millions of Americans.  It’s also bad news for Obama and the Democrats. Voters don’t pay much attention to the economy in an election year until after Labor Day, so it’s not necessarily a huge help to Romney and the Republicans. But it’s a bad political omen nonetheless.  No set of policies between now and Election Day are likely to expand the economy. To the contrary, government at all levels continues to contract, acting as a fiscal drag when government needs to be doing the exact reverse – boosting the economy through additional spending. In 2013, when spending major cuts are scheduled, we’ll fall off a fiscal cliff.Obama needs to push back loudly and clearly, saying he won’t support additional spending cuts until the economy is showing clear signs of improvement.But widening inequality is the underlying culprit here. As long as almost all the gains from economic growth continue to go to the top, the vast middle class doesn’t have the purchasing power to boost the economy on its own. And rich Americans spend a much smaller portion of their incomes than does the vast middle class. Their marginal satisfaction from additional spending falls off. The second yacht isn’t nearly as much fun as the first.Get it? We’ve still got a terrible cyclical problem – we can’t get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession.Yet the underlying problem is structural, and it’s been growing for decades. The structural problem of stagnant or declining real incomes for most people, and soaring income and wealth at the top, was masked during the boom years when the middle class could turn their homes into piggy banks and extract home-equity loans or refinance. But the mask came off in 2008 as home values plummeted.There’s no way to put the mask back on. We’ve got to face the truth. Obama and the Democrats have to explain to the American people why inequality isn’t just unfair; it’s also economically unsustainable.This article was originally posted on Robert Reich's blog.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912430/eric_bolling_uses_ridiculous_smear_tactic_to_discredit_employment_increase/#paragraph3

Eric Bolling Uses Ridiculous Smear Tactic to Discredit Employment Increase That's right. According to moran "renowned journalist" at Fox News, Eric Bolling, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is deliberately distorting the truth about the real employment figures. He claims they are becoming a "partisan" agency that manufactures the recent increase in new hires "out of thin air."During the May 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News business analyst and co-host of Fox News' The Five, Eric Bolling, continued his attack on "the big employment number" calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), an agency that Bolling has repeatedly suggested is "becoming a partisan department" as the unemployment rate has dropped under President Obama. In today's version of his weekly attack, Bolling asked "where do they come up with the number" for the labor force participation and conclude the number comes "out of thin air" to make the estimate look "better than what the actual job number really is."    Read more By Steven D. | Booman Tribune 
Posted on Friday, May 4, 2012 @ 08:22 AM
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 Dear UHW Supporter, Last year, SEIU-UHW launched “Let’s Get Healthy, California,” a big and bold campaign whose aim is to improve the quality of healthcare in California, lower costs, create good healthcare jobs and dramatically reduce the number of people who suffer from chronic health conditions.  We knew when we set out that what we were attempting to achieve was going to be tough, but that if we were successful, we would have fundamentally changed the healthcare system in California--for workers, for patients, and for communities-- for the better.  This week, we took two giant steps forward on the road to a healthier California by creating valuable partnerships that will help make our vision a reality: 1) Diana Dooley, the head of California's Health and Human Services Agency, announced today that the Governor has issued an Executive Order that makes our "Let's Get Healthy, California" campaign the policy of the state, and they are now working with us to make our goals a reality. Check out this video of her announcement (or click on the picture).  2) We have made a landmark agreement with the hospital industry that will allow us to work together on our joint priorities:Reducing the levels of chronic disease;Advocating for quality care and lower costs;Changing how the healthcare system is funded; andDeveloping high-road labor relations that will pave the way for thousands of healthcare workers to join a union.  This is an exciting time for our union. Working together with hospitals and with the State of California, we know we will be able to create the California that we have envisioned: a healthier one where everyone can access the care they need. In Unity,Ollie Allen
Kaiser Vallejo    SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West 560 Thomas L. Berkley Way, Oakland, CA 94612 This email was sent to:
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8928-revealed-full-list-of-alecs-corporate-members
Revealed: Full List of ALEC's Corporate MembersAlex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress: "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been under fire lately after the 15 major corporations and organizations pulled their support for the conservative organization, which helps quietly implement corporate-backed legislation in statehouses across the country. Now, the watchdog advocacy group Common Cause has released a complete list of corporations on ALEC's task forces." Read the Article 

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8931-may-day-from-the-haymarket-massacre-to-the-occupy-movement

May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy MovementLawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: "Popular anger has grown over Wall Street impunity, huge tax breaks for the rich, unlimited spending in election campaigns, corporate destruction of the environment, and the widening gap between the falling wages of workers and the rising income of corporate executives. Therefore, it seems likely that the struggle for economic justice will heighten in coming years, with May Day continuing to serve as a potent symbol of worker discontent." Read the Article
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912899/stunning_photography_captures_essence_of_may_day_in_nyc/ 

Stunning Photography Captures Essence of May Day in NYCBy Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
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http://www.alternet.org/rss/breakingnews/912678/miami_workers_center_cleans_foreclosed_home_and_delivers_trash_to_owner%2C_bank_of_america_%28photos%29/?akid=8724.16102.WdLTCv&rd=1&t=10

Miami Workers Center Cleans Foreclosed Home And Delivers Trash To Owner, Bank Of America (PHOTOS)By The Huffington Post News Editors | Huffington Post
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http://www.alternet.org/rss/breakingnews/912768/nypd_may_be_using_warrant_squads_to_monitor_protesters/?akid=8724.16102.WdLTCv&rd=1&t=12

NYPD May Be Using Warrant Squads to Monitor ProtestersBy Truthdig
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   Please watch and share these two great videos with your Facebook friends and other social networks about why a Financial Transaction Tax--becoming known worldwide as a "Robin Hood Tax"--should become part of the economic recovery in the U.S., and what the National Nurses United is doing to fight for it. Visit this link to learn about RN actions in Chicago on May 18.This first video features an interview with NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro
on why and how the nurses are involved in the movement to Tax Wall Street in the U.S.Click the play button above or here to watch and share this videoThe second video promotes actions nurses are leading to push for this tax in Chicago on May 18

Click the play button above or here to watch and share this videoClick here for more information on the May 18 ActionsSee the impressive list of organizations endorsing the May 18 Actions to Tax Wall StreetThank you for watching and sharing these informative videos!UNSUBSCRIBE | www.NationalNursesUnited.org | www.MainStreetContract.org
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http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/05/4467466/calstrs-to-oppose-wal-mart-directors.html

CalSTRS to oppose Wal-Mart directors over Mexico bribery scandal

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http://www.alternet.org/story/155281/noam_chomsky_on_america%27s_economic_suicide?akid=8723.16102.lNeIPj&rd=1&t=2

Noam Chomsky on America's Economic SuicideWe’re a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic “suicide” Chomsky says. But there are glimmers of possibility.READ MORELaura Flanders, Noam Chomsky / GRITtv
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http://www.alternet.org/story/155288/the_real_job_creators%3A_everyday_americans%2C_not_the_1?akid=8723.16102.lNeIPj&rd=1&t=12

-The Real Job Creators: Everyday Americans, Not the 1%Consumers, not the wealthy, are the key to an economic rebound, and GOP austerity is shackling them. READ MOREBy Joan Walsh / Salon
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