It's become quite obvious to me that the tech world will always be denied to me in terms of career or livelihood, and all because of things I deal with on a daily basis that are well beyond my ability to control. I started seeing this years ago, yet I chose to live in denial all that time. And I went through quite a bit only to find out the barrier to entry is impossible to break.
California has some new regulations that have been approved during the past year by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. These regulations expand workplace protections for transgender and gender variant people.
This headline says it all:
U.S. unemployment hits lowest level since 2001
Or does it?
The economy only added 138K jobs added in May, far below the 185K estimate, and below the lowest estimate of 140K.
But that's not a disaster. Just lackluster.
I recently started re-reading an old 18th century Chinese satirical novel called 'The Scholars', and I can't help but draw parallels not only between the blatantly corrupt literati of the Qing (or Ch'ing, depending on who you ask) Dynasty and the American Professional Class today, but the insane standards of both that made people waste their entire lives just to live up to them only to die trying or come up short.
The unemployment rate dropped to just 4.5% in March, the lowest since 2007. Happy days are here again, right?
Just saw a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ucpEeBfQg which offered 3 points. first, when the minimum wage was raised business for fast food joints skyrocketed. This was seen as an unabashed Good Thing. Working people had more money to spend and they spent it. But apparently they were spending it on fast food. Why? Were they buying a Big Mac on their way to their second job?
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that the City of Los Angeles has appropriated $290,000 toward reducing the high unemployment rate of transgender residents.
Governor John Bel Edwards (D) and Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) spent yesterday before Judge Todd Hernandez in Baton Rouge arguing Bel Edwards' executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in state government.
In recent comments, I said that I had good news to report regarding my adult dependants.They all got jobs!
On June 6, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said in a speech at the World Affairs Council that the U.S. economy was “now fairly close to the … goal of maximum employment.”
