“Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.” WellsStatesWisdomPoliticsNamesCompanyKnownEconomyProgramWorkersVariousTechniqueLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipMonopolyEsops Author:Ronald Reagan
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.” StatesUseGovernmentLeftCommunityPowerfulNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeIndustryProgramInnovationWorkersMost PowerfulLeft BehindManufacturingLarge NumbersMichiganCommunity College Author:Jennifer Granholm
“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.” SocialSecurityTaxesBenefitsPercentProgramIncreaseWorkersTrendsFewerSocial SecurityExpectancyPayrollLife ExpectancyPayroll TaxLonger Life Author:Alex Tabarrok
“A massive new guest worker program hurts American workers. ... If a guest worker program were to provide a path to citizenship, we would be rewarding lawbreakers with the greatest honor our country can bestow - citizenship.” IfsCountryWould BeHurtPathHonorProgramWorkersOur CountryMassiveGuestsCitizenshipAmerican Workers Author:Lamar S. Smith
“Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.” ReasonHelpingLawFocusDrugProgramPressureWorkersCriminalsTerroristAgentsBordersOfficialsTemporaryLaw EnforcementEnforcementDealerWrong ReasonsDrug DealersBorder Patrol Author:Scott McClellan
“In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas” PeopleWorldLongSchoolJobsProcessSoundCommunityTrainingAreasProgramWorkersHungryInstantBitesMentorGratificationHiringRebuildingMarginalizedAfter SchoolInstant GratificationImplementingSound BitesQuick FixesJob TrainingTraining ProgramsAfter School Programs Author:Dan Hill
“Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.” TurnsSocialAttentionDrugProgramWorkersCheaperMaintenancePreventionSocial WorkerMethadone Author:John Dufresne
“On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.” WorldWayKindWarPastCompanyEconomyOffersBenefitsProgramCompetitionWorkersSoldierPrivilegeConnectedMedicalEmploymentWar Of The WorldsPrisonerWorld War IiHealthcareWorld War IOur PastShortageMedical Insurance Author:Hillary Clinton
“When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.” FightingDealsMillionsMovementProgramLaborUnionsWorkersRadicalEstablishmentFactoriesBetter LifeJoining1930sConcessionsNew DealLabor Movement Author:Kshama Sawant
“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.” MayNextOpportunityDifficultAbilityTeachFiguresAmountComputerProgramPerformancesEntrepreneurWorkersDataMassiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialCatalystSupercomputers Author:Andrew McAfee
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.” PeopleWorldTryingIdeasReasonTogetherFightingClassSupportRightsEffectsDangerousPolicyProgramOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsWorkersWorking ClassGreeceGet TogetherInitiateReferendumsWorkers Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.” PeopleWantGivingWellsHardHelpingGovernmentWould BeGuySocialHard WorkHorrorProgramVoteDemocraticWorkersDrivingDishesWashingSocial WorkerGovernment ProgramsWashing DishesMinivans Author:Mark Helprin
“A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.” HomeFoundPercentProgramWorkersImmigrantsIllegalGuestsMexicoSurveysHispanicIllegal ImmigrantsReturning Home Author:John Shadegg
“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.” IfsNeedsMadeEnjoyClassTelevisionDaughterProgramWorkersPopulationSatisfactionEqualityNewspapersBossEstablishmentPreservationResortsEmployersAssimilationDisappearanceCadillacs Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that are hurting today with high unemployment, but we seem to be more focused on how we can ram through this Senate a bill that would legalize millions and create an even more robust guest worker program. There are not enough jobs now. Give me a break.” NeedsGivingEnoughSeemsTodayJobsHurtRaceBreakMillionsColorCitizensProgramGive MeBillsWorkersFocusedImmigrationMinoritiesSenateGuestsUnemploymentRobustAmerican CitizensRams Author:Jeff Sessions
“The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.” WayWealthGrowingPlansShareOffersFindingsPercentProgramWorkersProfitTrendsIncentivesEmployersCompensationSurveysBonusWorkforceProfit Sharing Author:Jerry Jasinowski
“A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.” ShouldFirstsReasonHelpingLawNationsProcessPayStepsSupportPolicyWillingShadowFairsProgramWorkersImmigrationIllegalFarmersGuestsFirst StepsAbidingImmigration ReformDependableImplementing Author:Bob Goodlatte
“Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.” AgeSchoolLastsFallFoundSpeakParentCitiesSupportTeacherNew YorkCollegeSonMonthsOfficeHigh SchoolProgramMovedWorkersCrowdsNeighborNineImmigrationThanksPostsMarchCheerNew York CityApplicationFactoriesInnovativeGreat TeacherImmigration ReformPost OfficeClassmatesGoing To CollegeFactory Workers Author:Barack Obama
“Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.” Has BeensGovernmentGrowsAbilityPovertyEconomicCostBenefitsGainsProgramStrongerRaisesUnionsWorkersDisappearMechanismWagesDimes Author:Andy Stern
“We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.” PeopleWantSocialSecurityPromiseProgramWorkersWelfareFixedSocial SecurityWelfare Programs Author:Dennis Hastert