How about distributing (and installing) free solar panels on every home in America? Job creation, save the planet, and annoy the two dozen or so old white guy companies who profit from destroying humanity – win, win, win!
Posts tagged “jobs”
Outsiders Hope for Jobs in Trump Administration
In which I am interviewed by Marketplace on NPR
Works Progress Administration
The WPA changed America forever.
#FridayFive: Teenage Wasteland
View the Friday Five from January 24th, 2014
#FridayFive: Things I Thought I’d Be When I Grew Up
View the Friday Five from August 23rd, 2013
There’s a neat story on SFGate.com about the 101st anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. This year only one man who was there at the time made it to the festivities, 104-yr old Herbert Hamrol. As far as I’m concerned, the most fascinating thing about the article is not that this man is over a century old. It’s not even that the old guy got out of bed at 2:30 in the morning to make it to the ceremony. It’s that it notes Hamrol took the day off work to attend. What the hell?! Retire, dude!
Sometimes You Just Need a Bat Stretcher
At some point in your life, you’re going to be asked to find a bat stretcher. This is a terrific story. I’ve gone through this experience myself, so I know the feeling. It happened to me while I was loading trucks on the midnight-to-ten shift for Old Dominion Freight Lines. One of the dock managers
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
A quick book review
Dangerous Jobs
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), farm workers are risking their lives every time they enter a manure pit.