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The OccupyUSA Blog for Monday (Feb. 6), With Frequent Updates
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166081/occupyusa-blog-monday-feb-6-frequent-updatesOne powerful and lengthy commercial during the Super Bowl featured Clint Eastwood talking about Americans sticking together to come back from adversity -- such as everyone joining together to save the auto industry (with some stirring images on the screen)--while warning that the job was only "half done" (the ad aired at half time) and we need to do more. Some took it as practically a call for Obama's re-election. But: Eastwood is longtime Republican who most recently has extolled Ron Paul. And his party (and its candidates for president, including Paul) have ripped Obama's moves to save the car industry. And here's Eastwood recently in L.A. Times saying that HE opposed the stimulus and still opposes bailing out "companies."
Boston Globe piece on Occupy in the nearby cities and suburbs, such as Somerville, Salem, Lowell. Less camping and publicity but carrying on.
Wash Post: Tax tips for the 99%. .... Our own Dave Zirin tweets: "Protests now in Indy: Occupiers, IBEW, UFCW, CWA, gathered at Indy statehouse."... Skip Madonna, re-live when The Boss rocked halftime. Clarence R.I.P.
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http://www.dailyyonder.com/
This map shows the job loss (by percentage) in rural and exurban counties since the recession began in December 2007. Click on the map to see a larger version
Most of rural America has not recovered from the recession that began four years ago, a Daily Yonder analysis of federal jobs figures has found.
In fact, rural counties have lost a higher percentage of their jobs sice the beginning of the recession than in either urban or exurban counties, according to data supplied by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The recession officially began in December 2007 and, economists conclude, ended in June of 2009. But most rural counties still don't have the same number of jobs they recorded four years ago.
This map shows the job loss (by percentage) in rural and exurban counties since the recession began in December 2007. Click on the map to see a larger version
Most of rural America has not recovered from the recession that began four years ago, a Daily Yonder analysis of federal jobs figures has found.
In fact, rural counties have lost a higher percentage of their jobs sice the beginning of the recession than in either urban or exurban counties, according to data supplied by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The recession officially began in December 2007 and, economists conclude, ended in June of 2009. But most rural counties still don't have the same number of jobs they recorded four years ago.
