The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty, American Warehouses

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty, American Warehouses JOLIET, Ill., and FONTANA, Calif. -- Like nearly everyone else in Joliet without good job prospects, Uylonda Dickerson eventually found herself at the warehouses looking for work. "I just needed a job," the 38-year-old single mother says. Despite Canceled Holiday Parties, Wall Street On Pace For Record-Breaking Pay Fed Proposes Tougher New Rules For Biggest Banks World's Top Selling Drug Sees Sales Plunge Foreclosure Aid Scam Allegedly Paid For Wife's Plastic Surgery Most Embarrassing CEO Quotes Of The Year BLOG POSTS Michelangelo Signorile: How Gay Media Helped Sink the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger There are many stories to be told about the collapse of the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger. While there were many involved in that effort, LGBT bloggers and gay media in particular were critical. Matt Browner Hamlin: GORUCK: The Most Passionate Brand Following In the World Jason McCarthy, a former Green Beret and the founder of the rucksack company GORUCK, says a lot of things that command your attention. But when he speaks about his company's growth in the last year, my ears really pick up. David Isenberg: Pedagogic Military Contractors: Blackwater, the Academy and the "ιδιωτικές στρατιωτικές ανάδοχος" As what was Blackwater, then Xe, sails off into the sunset and Academi unfurls its sails, I wish it well. As they say, third time's the charm. Rabbi Michael Lerner: Occupy Hanukkah and Christmas One of the reflections of the way both religions have lost their ethical core is that the vast majority of people in both religious worlds have allowed their winter holidays into orgies of consumerism. David Kiley: What 'Once Upon A Car' Can Teach Us About the Auto Industry, and Detroit The city of Detroit is still weak and gasping to avoid bankruptcy. In the event of a bankruptcy, the city's union contracts will be torn up, debts eliminated and renegotiated. It would be painful, just as it was for GM and Chrysler.

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