Is a Lean Economy Turning Mean?

New York Times by Peter S. Goodman | Mar. 2, 2008 (News Report)

Nicole Flennaugh has a college degree, office experience and the modest expectation that, somewhere in this city on the eastern lip of San Francisco Bay, someone will want to hire her. -- But Ms. Flennaugh, 36, a widow, cannot secure steady, decent-paying work to support herself and her two daughters. Nearly two years after she was laid off as a customer service representative at the Educational Testing Service, and even after applying for dozens of ... Full Story »

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by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

Well written, loaded with facts, this story appears to be carefully researched.

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by Beth Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

Starting locally and then expanding the story to include the national situation, offering lots of figures that are well presented. The story flows well, making its points with numerous examples and stats. Much appreciated given our usual, dumbed down, infotainment-poisoned national discourse.

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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

A story that started with a few assertions turned out to be well sourced, informative and well written.

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by James Jackson - Oct. 1, 2008

In the course of my long and messy resume, there are several posts (Scott Co., Oakland Tribune, Friden) in and around Oakland. The stories in this article could have come from anytime in the last 45 years. The numbers in the article are very important and the stories were intended to humanize the numbers. However, to a person that has lived and worked and taught in Oakland it feels like there is nothing new under the sun.

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