Posted in Politics & Public Policy, Technology & Science, tagged 911, amnesty, background checks, Big Brother, communications, Constitution, contracts, data collection, data mining, database, debate, DOD, efficiency, electronic, email, firms, fourth amendment, fraud, hack, hero, indiscriminate, invasion, IT costs, judge, leaks, metadata, naval yard shooter, no-bid, NSA, Obamacare website, obtrusive, outsourcing, paradox, phone, pitfalls, privacy, private sector, Russia, safety, security, security clearances, Snowden, spies, subcontractor, surveillance, Technology & Science, terrorism, traitor, vetting, waste on December 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Amidst this week’s revelation that a federal judge would likely rule in favor of a judicial activist who argues that the NSA’s activities violate the Fourth Amendment — and the revelation that some in the NSA would rather grant fugitive Edward Snowden amnesty than drive him further into the open arms of the Russians and Chinese — I am reminded again how often the story isn’t the story.
At best, it is incomplete. (more…)
Posted in Economics & Globalization, Technology & Science, tagged Alan Blinder, American Dream, applicant, applicant tracking, apply for a job, automated resume screeners, automation, biased technical change, bifurcation, body shops, buisiness, career ladder, cheaper, cloud computing, consumer demand, contingent labor, contractors, corporate, destruction, digital, double dip recession, Economics & Globalization, economist, education, efficiency, electronic, fallacies, fewer, free trade, gross job loss, hiring, human resources, Internet, IT, job retraining, job seeker, jobs, just in time staffing, labor, machines, offshoring, on demand, outsourcing, overseas, plan, polarization, policy, prosperity, rebound, rebuild, recruiters, restore, resume, return to work, self-serve, skills, social networking, structural unemployment, temp work, the great restructuring, Third World, threatens, underemployed, unemployed, voters, workers, workforce on August 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
It’s a presidential election year and by all counts the race is close. There is no question the post-recession recovery has been anemic at best. To call it a recovery is a stretch and the threat of a double-dip recession lingers. Whether anyone can really turn this lackluster economy around is anyone’s guess. Talk of the unsustainable $16T deficits looms large but specifics on job creation remain few.
It’s not just abstract conversation for the nation’s unemployed and underemployed.
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