Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater be partly sunny, with scattered afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:31 AM and sunset 8:30 PM for 14h 58m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, the Atomic Age begins when the United States…
Employment
Daily Bread, Economy, Employment, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 5.20.22: Employment in Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see periods of sun contrasted with scattered thundershowers with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:16 PM for 14h 50m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 74.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for…
Business, Daily Bread, Economy, Employment, Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 2.23.22: Ron Johnson’s Lazy Job on Jobs
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 22. Sunrise is 6:38 AM and sunset 5:37 PM for 10h 59m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 54% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Park Board meets at 5:30 PM, and the city’s Community Involvement Commission meets at…
Daily Bread, Employment, University, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 11.12.21: UW-Madison Charts the Right Course on Vaccination
by JOHN ADAMS •
Business, Daily Bread, Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Labor
Daily Bread for 10.20.21: Ending ICE Raids at Workplaces
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:15 AM and sunset 6:03 PM for 10h 47m 42s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1803, the United States Senate ratifies (24-7) the Louisiana Purchase. Free markets include markets…
Daily Bread, Employment, Public Health, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 10.19.21: Employers Have Rights — and Obligations to Workplace Safety
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread, Employment, Free Markets, Populists, Trumpism, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 8.15.21: The ‘Personal Responsibility’ Crowd Wants a Handout
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:55 PM, for 13h 53m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944, Allied forces land in southern France in Operation Dragoon. Molly Beck reports…
Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Free Markets, Labor, Private Property, Vaccines
No Shirt, No Shoes? No Service
by JOHN ADAMS •
The conservative populists talk endlessly about the dangers of socialism (however poorly they grasp the term), but truthfully they’re happy with government mandates or prohibitions that advance their own preferences. Some private employers want to require masks, and others want to require vaccinations, but these right-wing interventionists now screech that private businesses should not be…
City, Disinformation, Economy, Employment, Poverty
Unemployment Imagined and Real
by JOHN ADAMS •
National unemployment figures have been undercounting the true number of those unemployed. Rachel Siegel reports Fed chair: Unemployment rate was closer to 10 percent, not 6.3 percent, in January: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday that the unemployment rate in January was “close to 10 percent,” significantly higher than the 6.3 percent rate…
America, Economy, Employment, Failure, Trump
Trump’s Employment Failure
by JOHN ADAMS •
Catherine Rampell writes December’s jobs report confirms Trump is set to be the worst jobs president on record: When the pandemic first hit the United States, we lost 22 million jobs almost immediately. Then after seven months of gains — albeit decelerating ones — the economy tipped back into job losses in December, the Bureau…
Economy, Employment, Poverty, Recession
That’s Not a Recovery: Millions Slip into Poverty & Unemployment Claims Rise
by JOHN ADAMS •
That a rush to re-open would lead to an economic rebound was always doubtful (no economic fix without a pandemic fix), but the data are clear that America is experiencing no national ‘recovery.’ Jason DeParle reports 8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up: After an ambitious expansion of…
Economy, Employment, Failure, Recession, Trump
Historic
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Culture, Employment, Local Government, School District, University
Mentoring
by JOHN ADAMS •
When a small community like Whitewater comes to rely on hundreds of non-resident commuters to provide services (for city, schools, or university), those commuters will have a different work relationship than resident workers. (About these workers see The Commuter Class.) Many will be less attached to the community (as they’ve freely chosen to live elsewhere…
Coronavirus, Economics, Economy, Employment, Federal Reserve, Public Health
Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s Interview on Economic Recovery
by JOHN ADAMS •
Last night, 60 Minutes broadcast an interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in which Powell discussed current economic conditions and prospects for recovery. (Powell sat for the interview on Wednesday, 5.13.20 with Scott Pelley of CBS News.) The interview is available online, as is a transcript. Below are excerpts from the transcript (although Powell’s…