Slog - Comments on It's the Economy, Stupid http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid From The New York Times: After moving into virtually every occupation, women are being afflicted on a large scale by the same troubles as men: downturns, layoffs, outsourcing, stagnant wages or the discouraging prospect of an outright pay cut. And they are responding as men have, by dropping out or disappearing for awhile. “When we saw women starting to drop out in the early part of this decade, we thought it was the motherhood movement, women staying home to raise their kids,” Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, which did the Congressional study, said... Copyright 2008 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:05 -0800 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:59:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Snark of the Covenant Q: Why was the chicken fired from The Stranger?

A: To get to the other Seattle alternative weekly!

]]> Snark of the Covenant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079047 The Ladies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:23:28 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Wow, it's almost as if the consequences of the increasing stratification of the economy cut across the traditional boundary lines of identity politics and affect everybody, giving common political cause to members of the struggling middle class and working poor from every possible background. And yet all my middle-class liberal college-educated friends assure me that the only meaningful way to address oppression is to identify oneself with one particular historically-downtrodden demographic slice and endlessly struggle to prevent society at large from engaging in insensitive behavior towards that slice. Should I struggle for economic justice for everybody or continue to confine my efforts to the fight for more sensitive treatment for people who look, act and/or think like me? What a conundrum.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079056 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079056 The Ladies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:29:39 -0800 Comment by smp Yes, but these are obviously middle class women who are married or partnered. They have the choice to stay home. If I don't go to work...my kids and I are on the streets. I work because I have to and my income makes up 100 percent of my family's income, not 1/3. I guess I should feel bad for them as a whole, but I don't. At all.

]]> smp http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079079 The Ladies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:56:44 -0800 Comment by MK @3,

While the women in question married/partnered and able to stay home without risking poverty, if you read the last two paragraphs, it says that the problem is that women were staying home not out of choice, but because jobs were unavailable. They were just counting the women as having stayed home to raise kids/run the house.

]]> MK http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079090 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079090 The Ladies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:01:34 -0800 Comment by CP Flamingbanjo, the two aren't mutually exclusive. It's just that plenty of do-good libs are well off and really don't give a fig about class. Those unions took things too far, don't you know.

Corn pone opinions, as usual.

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079102 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/its_the_economy_stupid#c1079102 The Ladies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:59:31 -0800