Think downsizing will solve your company’s financial woes? These harsh realities may make you think twice. 1. Significant indirect costs often wipe out the direct savings of layoffs. While layoffs may seem like a good way to...
Cowed by the financial crisis, American consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse before it gets better. In response to the falling value of their homes and high gasoline prices, Americans have become more frugal all year....
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF is the nation's primary welfare program, federally funded yet implemented uniquely by each state. It aims to move welfare recipients into work and build strong families. However, recent reforms to welfare legislation have not sufficiently reduced poverty...
IRE members names in bold won recognition in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business competition: * Steve Harrison, Rick Rothacker, Andrew Shain, Mike Drummond, Ames Alexander, Stella M. Hopkins, Christopher Kirkpatrick and Tony Mecia, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer for "Creditors, feds key to air...
Matthew Winkler of Bloomberg News Receives Lifetime Achievement Award and Lawrence Minard Editor Award Goes to Dan Kelly of The Wall Street Journal NEW YORK -- Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at New York City's Cipriani 42nd Street for the 2007 Gerald Loeb...
Agriculture and natural resources Southgate, Douglas, Douglas H. Graham, and Luther Tweeten, The World Food Economy. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 416 pp., $94.85/ hardback, $44.95/paperback. Economic and social statistics Bandyopadhyay, P.K. and G.S. Gupta, Measuring Productivity in Services --New Dimensions....
Matthew Winkler of Bloomberg News to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award and Lawrence Minard Editor Award Goes to Dan Kelly of the Wall Street Journal New Feature Writing Category Included LOS ANGELES -- Judy D. Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation...
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has named the winners in its 12th annual Best in Business contest, which recognizes the best sections or publications, as well as the best breaking news, enterprise and projects reporting in business journalism during 2006. ...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. By Louis Uchitelle. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 283 pp., $25.95/hardback. In his book The Disposable American, Louis Uchitelle takes a narrative approach in conveying the problems of mass layoffs in America. Analyzing these problems and providing...
Byline: Louis Uchitelle Jan 09, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A US economist is challenging accepted economic theory. George Akerlof believes that economic theory should incorporate the diversity of human behaviour. The free market approach of...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle (Knopf, March 2006, $25.95) Since the 1970s, American employers and politicians have facilitated layoffs, tolerated them, or both. And according to veteran New York Times economics writer, Louis Uchitelle, the result is a "festering national crisis" that undermines worker...
THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN: LAYOFFS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES BY LOUIS UCHITELLE Alfred A. Knopf, 283 pages, $25.95 ALL TOGETHER NOW: COMMON SENSE FOR A FAIR ECONOMY BY JARED BERNSTEIN Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 154 pages, $12.00 AMERICA BACK ON TRACK BY...
This month, I want to talk about a book. I recently read The Disposable American by New York Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle. While I'm no literary expert, I am an A&P and IA who enjoys a good book every now and then. After reading The Disposable...
FRENCH STUDENT PROTESTERS commanded headlines in March of this year, when they took to the streets to challenge a law that would make it easy to fire young workers without cause. In the United States, at least, the media mocked the...
An Interview with Louis UchitelleLouis Uchitelle is the author of The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. He is a reporter with the New York Times, where he writes about business, labor and economics. He was the lead reporter ...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle New York: Knopf, 2006 Greenleft Weekly P.O. Box 394, Broadway NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA...
The Disposable American By Louis Uchitelle Alfred A. Knopf, $26.00 Among all the reporters who write about economics for the mainstream media, Louis Uchitelle is the indispensable iconoclast who covers corporate chief executives critically and working people sympathetically. If he seems like a throwback to...
The story is all too familiar. Longtime employees of a corporation who once thought they were immune from layoffs are abruptly axed. Perhaps the employer has gone through a takeover, cut costs to boost earnings, or moved a division overseas to a low-wage nation. The emotional impact of...
Chipping away at human capital THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle Knopf. $25.95. "PEOPLE WHO BASICALLY LOOK AT REALITY AS it exists, without hoping for it to change, and deal with the hand they are dealt, so to speak, they are the successful ones." That's...
In "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences," author Louis Uchitelle says widespread layoffs among U.S. companies are taking a hidden psychological toll on Americans, resulting in what he calls an "anxious class." These workers suffer from downward mobility, loss of self-esteem, and income volatility. Have you worked with patients...
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