Welcome to a special edition of the Pivot Points and Pivot Points blog e-newsletter, by Ed Crego and Frank Islam, dedicated to the issue of labor/jobs...
The Future of the Average
As growing income inequality continues to make the "average worker" a statistical person increasingly disconnected from reality, we consider why averages still matter...
http://bit.ly/murky_average
Reawakening Labor--Olé!
In labor's darkest hour, the reinvention and transformation of the labor movement may be taking place in one of the darkest recessionary corners, sunny Spain...
http://bit.ly/reawakening_labor
Making Job Creation A Team Sport
There's already $3 trillion worth of proof of concept that what's happening in Basque country can happen here, too--in fact, it's more American than apple pie (apples originated in central Asia)...
http://bit.ly/job_teams
What We're Reading (Foroohar, Krugman, MarksJarvis)
TIME's "Curious Capitalist" Rana Foroohar discusses the real economic crisis, and it's not debt or unemployment...
http://bit.ly/foroohar_flats
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains how our obsession with the future has been leading us to sacrifice it...
http://bit.ly/krugman_mutilation
Chicago Tribune columnist Gail MarksJarvis looks into the proverbial crystal ball, shares why you may need glasses to see the view (if we just continue on our current course)...
http://bit.ly/marksjarvis_strongerbut
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