Category: Economy
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Dollar Bill, Y’all!
Former State Representative Charlie Smith, Jr. wants to abandon the dollar bill in favor of dollar coins. Reportedly, it’ll save the US government $500,000,000.00 and that’s a lot of zeros. Smith claims he’s circulated more than 20,000 coins in Camden and has convinced several businesses and banks in the county to start using them. The…
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Great Opportunities to Work with SEIU!!
My friend Pamela Kieffer from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) asked me to pass this on. On top of the opening listed below she is also looking for GOTV campaign workers from the end of August to mid September. Pamela’s email is pamela.kieffer@seiu.org WAVE Program Union Organizer in Training POSITIONS ARE NATIONWIDE. Starting Salary: $36,600 with…
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Do Georgians Outside Atlanta Really Want Mass Transit?
That’s the big question posed in the AJC article this morning. Seems like it comes down to basic supply and demand. Where the riders have access to MARTA or a MARTA juncture, they want and need it to get to work, home and school. There are some good percentages here, mainly that 40% of MARTA…
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Men We Love: Matt Taibbi
Whether it’s his appearances on The Bill Maher Show during the 2008 election or his piercing writing about the financial crisis: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. Taibbi has just returned from his…
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Unemployment Down Throughout Georgia
Preliminary figures are good throughout the state. Atlanta did particularly well. From the GA Department of Labor: [T]he preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in metro Atlanta declined to 9.8 percent in April, down six-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 10.4 percent in March. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed workers in the metro area decreased…