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...effects of the sinking economy hit home for me last fall, when I started hearing one report after another through the grapevine about neighbors losing jobs or being reassigned to jobs they didn't want. No livelihood seems secure. We are (or were) journalists and college professors, government workers and architects, administrative assistants and teachers, a hairstylist, car salesman, computer technician, library administrator, nurse, social worker, bank employee, crop scientist, graphic designer and small-business owner. And suddenly we seem divided into two equally nervous camps: the overworked company employees and the underworked, often newly self-employed, scrambling to find...
...able to afford many things that I will see others acquiring," "I will be less likely to find good jobs that pay well, bad jobs that don't pay well, or maybe any jobs," and "I will be more likely to rely on the state welfare system for my livelihood...
...pedestal; in fact, we should be prepared to cut down some concerns to expand aid further. This external necessity is worth any internal cost.The crux of our message is still this: We are bitterly disappointed by these cuts. But, put into perspective with a local’s livelihood, they are worthy sacrifices. We hope—and we all should hope—that students get a chance to give their part for the university as a whole. Faust’s letter’s reminder that “Harvard is not invulnerable” serves...
...lengthy coverage of the strikes in the official media was seen as a form of legitimization by later strikers. "There have been taxi-driver strikes occasionally in the past a few years, but never so many in such a short period of time," says Liu Feiyue of Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, a Hubei province-based rights group. "There is a domino effect, even though the drivers might deny it. The initial strikes are an inspiration to the later ones...
...fact that has been the elephant, or rather, donkey, in the room for the entire campaign has finally reared its ugly head. Comics across America have quietly despaired. From The Onion to campus-based ventures like On Harvard Time or Satire V, those who derive their livelihood from poking fun at power quail when they ponder the next four years. “You have to wait for all the dust to settle and look for patterns and things to joke about,” said the head writer of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, when asked...