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...come to this. White-collar workers are joining the jobless ranks in record numbers, tossed aside by the same companies that not long ago lavished them with signing bonuses and free lattes. Although the Labor Department announced last week that overall unemployment fell slightly to 5.6% in September, the number of white-collar workers who are jobless has doubled from two years ago. Professionals, managers and technical and administrative workers now make up 43% of the unemployed, according to the government. "Of course, other workers are hard hit too," says Jeffrey Wenger, an economist at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute...
...Hadid has designed the building around its product. "The entire work force will have to move through one zone to their respective parts, the cars also going through it. There is no split between management, design, manufacture. It's a new work landscape that ends the blue collar-white collar divide. You will even see the cars from the cafeteria." But it is not always easy for clients to envisage the working parts within Hadid's broad-brush drawings. This was the case with a science center in Wolfsburg, the German city best known for making Volkswagens. The head...
...alleviating the burden of an unemployment rate that hovers close to 20 percent. Spiraling unemployment has been the downside of the free-market policies implemented by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and has swung voters more solidly behind the PT. It's an issue that Lula, a self-taught blue collar worker and trade unionist before becoming the beacon of the Brazilian Left, understands better than any of the other candidates - and certainly better than most international investors. "If international economists were always right, all we would need is to hire 10 Nobel Prize (winners) and let them run the country...
...Literal punching is not recommended, except when dealing with members of the Fly. Aim for the spot right between their upturned collar and their backwards visor...
...Avalon, doesn’t just answer “yes”—it obliterates any doubt to the contrary. Taking the stage to chants of “let’s go, Murphys,” Boston’s reigning kings of blue-collar punk barrel through 74 blistering minutes of music, delivering old favorites (“Boys on the Docks,” “Skinhead on the MBTA”) and punk-infused Irish folk songs (“Finnegan’s Wake...