ECONOMICS

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation this week which would standardize a 32-hour workweek for the same pay.

"Today, American workers are over 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago. That has got to change," Sanders said in a Wednesday press release.

"The financial gains from the major advancements in artificial (more…)

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Can you guess who the quote in the article title is from?  I will give you a hint.  It wasn’t me.  I know that it sounds like it could have come from me, but it actually comes from a very big name on Wall Street. 

Ellen Zentner is Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. economist, and she is the one that said it. 

During an interview with CNBC she warned that “the tightening impacts from monetary (more…)

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Job openings that require formal education credentials are “gradually disappearing” this year on Indeed, the popular job search website said.

Businesses hiring in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2021. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)

As of this January, some 52 percent of job postings in the United States didn’t come with any education requirements at all. That’s up from 48 percent at the same time in 2019, according (more…)