News item: the highest rate of unemployment in America is among the folks with the least amount of formal education ————— So, here is the real problem. There are jobs going unfilled because the need for specific education is so high. And, there are workers ready to work, with lower levels of formal education, and… Read More Jobs, Jobs Everywhere – But Not for the Lesser-Educated
We may be a nation based on free speech, but that doesn’t stop people from objecting to certain books and attempting to get them banned–so you and your children can’t read them. Each year the American Library Association releases a list of the top 10 books that generated the most controversy, naming them the most… Read More They Tried To Ban That Book? — Amazing
Karl Krayer and I will soon complete our 13th full year of hosting the First Friday Book Synopsis. At each of our monthly meetings, Karl and I each present a synopsis of a best selling business book. For nearly half that time, I have also presented synopses every month for the Urban Engagement Book Club… Read More A Suggested Reading List For Those Interested In Issues of Social Justice And Poverty
For the first major chapter in my life, I served churches in California and Texas as a minister. I still serve as a “guest preacher” occasionally, and I present books at the Urban Engagment Book Club for Central Dallas Ministries. So, each month, I read and present a minimum of two book synopses – one… Read More Maybe We All Have A “Hole” In Our Approach To Life — Insight From “The 2010 Christian Book Of The Year”
This week, I repeated my synopsis of the book Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. This is a social justice classic, and I revisit it a time or two a year. It still sells well, after all of these years (it came out in 2001). In today’s economically difficult… Read More A Quote for the Day – from Barbara Ehrenreich
Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, “working poor,”… Read More “Nobody who works hard should be poor in America” writes David Shipler
“I’ve had enough unchosen encounters with poverty in my lifetime to know it’s not a place you would want to visit for touristic purposes; it just smells too much like fear..” Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America) It was August, 2001, when I presented my synopsis of Barbara Ehrenreich’s best-selling… Read More Nickel and Dimed Stands the Test of Time — and Barbara Ehrenreich has a New Book Coming Soon
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